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CALIFORNIA PROLIFE COUNCIL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE v. SCULLY

No. CIV. S-96-1965LKK/DAD.

989 F.Supp. 1282 (1998)

CALIFORNIA PROLIFE COUNCIL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, Plaintiff, v. Jan SCULLY, et al., Defendants and Defendants in Intervention. And Consolidated Actions.

United States District Court, E.D. California.

January 6, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Waters, Olson, Hagel, Leidigh, Waters & Fishburn, Sacramento, CA, for plaintiff California Democratic Party.

John E. Mueller, Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, Mill Valley, CA, for plaintiffs California Republican Party, Schroeder, Swartz, Wolin, Steel & Leonard.

Joseph Remcho, Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, San Francisco, CA, for the Union plaintiffs.

Thomas Kevin Hockel, Walnut Creek, CA, for plaintiff California Prolife Council Political Action Comm.

James Bopp, Jr., John K. Abegg, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for plaintiff California Prolife Council Political Action Comm.

James V. Lacy, Lacy and Lacy, Laguna Niguel, CA, for plaintiffs Hoffenblum & Levine.

Lawrence Thomas Woodlock & Deborah Allison, Fair Political Practices Comm'n, Sacramento, CA, for defendant Fair Political Practices Commission.

Bradley S. Phillips, Steven Weisburd, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, CA, for Intervenors Miller & Holton.

Deborah Goldberg, Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY, for Intervenors Miller & Holton.

OPINION1

KARLTON, Chief Judge Emeritus.

A healthy scepticism on the part of the governed concerning those who govern is as much a mark of a vibrant democracy as a paranoid suspicion is a symptom of its decline. Whether California's voters entertain the former or suffer the latter is of some moment in the matter at bar. After a two-week trial the issue remains one upon which reasonable minds might disagree.

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