SHRINK MISSOURI GOVERNMENT PAC v. MAUPIN

No. 95-2857.

71 F.3d 1422 (1995)

SHRINK MISSOURI GOVERNMENT PAC, a political action committee; W. Bevis Schock; Frederick T. Dyer, Appellees, v. John MAUPIN, in his official capacity as Chair of the Missouri Ethics Commission; Jeremiah W. Nixon, in his official capacity as Missouri Attorney General, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Robert Layton, Assistant Attorney General, Jefferson City, Missouri, argued (Cynthia A. Barrett, Stephen R. Martin II, and Amy E. Randles, on the brief), for appellants.

D. Bruce LaPierre, St. Louis, Missouri, argued (Frank Susman, on the brief), for appellees.

Before BOWMAN, ROSS, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.


BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

Missouri's Campaign Finance Disclosure Law, Mo.Rev.Stat. Ch. 130 (1994), was amended twice in 1994. In July the state legislature adopted a measure commonly known as Senate Bill 650, and in November the citizens of Missouri adopted a ballot initiative commonly known as Proposition A. Both of these measures limit election campaign contributions and expenditures and thus tend to limit the free exercise of political speech that the First Amendment...

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