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KRUSE v. CITY OF CINCINNATI

Nos. 97-3193, 97-3194 and 97-3210.

142 F.3d 907 (1998)

John R. KRUSE; Kruse for Council Committee; Thomas E. Brinkman, Jr.; and Mark W. Miller, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF CINCINNATI; Roxanne Qualls, Councilmember and Mayor of the City of Cincinnati; Dwight Tillery, Councilmember; Tyrone Yates, Councilmember; Todd Portune, Councilmember; Bobbie Sterne, Councilmember; Philip M. Heimlich, Councilmember; Minette J. Cooper, Councilmember; Thomas A. Luken, Councilmember; Nicholas J. Vehr, Councilmember; Charles Winburn, Councilmember; and John F. Shirey, City Manager of the City of Cincinnati, Defendants-Appellants (97-3194), Charter Committee of Greater Cincinnati; Hamilton County Democratic Party; and A. Matthew Rosen, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants (97-3193), African-American Small Business Committee, PAC; and Barbara Milon, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants (97-3210).

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 27, 1998.

Rehearings and Suggestions for Rehearings Denied June 18, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Carvin (argued), Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, Washington, DC, Christopher Paul Finney (briefed), David R. Langdon (briefed), Finney, Bacon & Muehlenkamp, Cincinnati, OH, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Karl P. Kadon, III (briefed), City Solicitor's Office for the City of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, Brenda Wright, John C. Bonifaz (argued and briefed), National Voting Rights Institute, Boston, MA, for Defendants-Appellants in No. 97-3194.

Donald J. Mooney, Jr. (argued and briefed), Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, Cincinnati, OH, for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants in No. 97-3193

Eric H. Kearney (briefed), Cohen, Todd, Kite & Stanford, Cincinnati, OH, for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants in No. 97-3210.

Elizabeth M. Osenbaugh (briefed), Department of Justice, Des Moines, IA, for Amicus Curiae State of Arizona.

Burt Neuborne (briefed), Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, New York City, for Amicus Curiae Brennan Center for Justice.

Before: KENNEDY and SILER, Circuit Judges; COHN, District Judge.

KENNEDY, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which SILER, J., joined. COHN, D.J. (pp. 919-920), delivered a separate concurring opinion.

OPINION

KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

Defendants and intervenor-defendants appeal the District Court's judgment striking down City of Cincinnati Ordinance 240-1995 which places a $140,000 limit on city council campaign expenditures because it violates the First Amendment. The parties supporting the Ordinance

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