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MRLSPAC v. WEATHERSBEE

Civ. No. Y-97-565.

975 F.Supp. 791 (1997)

MARYLAND RIGHT TO LIFE STATE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, et al., v. Frank WEATHERSBEE, et al.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

August 20, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Bopp, Jr., Terre Haute, Indiana; Dale L. Wilcox, Terre Haute, Indiana; Ben Dennis, Rockville, Maryland, counsel for Plaintiffs.

J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland; Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill, Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland; Margaret Witherup Tindall, Staff Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland; Robert Z. Zarnoch, Assistant Attorney General, Annapolis, Maryland, counsel for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

JOSEPH H. YOUNG, Senior District Judge.

This civil action challenges a Maryland public ethics law1 that limits the involvement of certain regulated lobbyists in the affairs of certain political committees as impinging on protected political speech and association in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment that the challenged...

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