CITIZENS FOR RESPON. GOV. STATE POLIT. v. BUCKLEY

Nos. Civ.A. 96-S-2844, Civ.A. 96-S-2973 and Civ.A. 97-S-221.

60 F.Supp.2d 1066 (1999)

CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT STATE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, Plaintiffs, v. Victoria BUCKLEY, Secretary of State of the State of Colorado, Defendant. Steve Durham; Phil Panckey; and The Colorado State Republican Central Committee, Plaintiffs, v. Victoria Buckley, as Secretary of State of the State of Colorado, Defendant. Colorado Republicans for Choice, Inc., an unincorporated Colorado political committee; Crown Point Communications, Inc., a Colorado corporation; Dorothy S. Wham; William Thiebaut, Jr.; Donna Mullins Good; and CEA EDPAC, a Colorado nonprofit corporation, Plaintiffs, v. Victoria Buckley, Secretary of State of the State of Colorado, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

As Amended August 20, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Rouse, Denver, CO, James Bopp, Terre Haute, IN, for Plaintiffs.

Elizabeth A. Weishaupl, Robert Hill, Denver, CO, for Defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SPARR, District Judge.

THIS MATTER came before the court for trial. Plaintiffs challenge several sections of the Fair Campaign Practices Act ("FCPA"), Colo.Rev.Stat. §§ 1-45-101 et seq., as violating their rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by infringing on protected political speech and association and by denying them equal protection of the law.2

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