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VERMONT RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE, INC. v. SORRELL

No. 2:97-CV-286.

19 F.Supp.2d 204 (1998)

VERMONT RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE, INC., Plaintiff, v. William H. SORRELL, in his official capacity as Vermont Attorney General; John T. Quinn, William Wright, Dale O. Gray, Lauren Bowerman, Jan Paul, James Hughes, Linda P. Effel, Joel W. Page, James D. McKnight, Jane Woodruff, James P. Mongeon, Terry Trono, Dan Davis, and Patricia Zimmerman, in their official capacities as Vermont State's Attorneys; James F. Milne, in his official capacity as Vermont Secretary of State; and Edward W. Haase, in his official capacity as Vermont Commissioner of Taxes, Defendants, and Vermont Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause/Vermont, League of Women Voters of Vermont, Rural Vermont, Seth Bongartz, Cheryl Rivers, and Marjorie Power, Defendant-Interveners.

United States District Court, D. Vermont.

September 9, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Charles Smith, Bauer, Anderson & Gravel, Burlington, VT, James Bopp, Jr., Richard E. Coleson, Glenn M. Willard, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for Plaintiff.

Conrad Wesley Smith, Rebecca Mary Ellis, Vermont Attorney General's Office, Timothy Bert Tomasi, Office of Attorney General, Montpelier, VT, for Defendants.

Peter Francis Welch, Welch, Graham & Manby, White River Jct, VT, Stephen D. Whetstone, Inez H. Friedman, John R. Bauer, Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, Boston, MA, John C. Bonifaz, Brenda Wright, National Voting Rights Institute, Boston, MA, for Intervenor-Defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

SESSIONS, District Judge.

In this civil action for declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, Vermont Right to Life Committee, Inc., ("VRLC") seeks a determination that Vermont's recently-enacted campaign finance reform statutes which regulate political advertising are unconstitutional facially and as applied. Before the Court are the Plaintiff...

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