CAL. PROLIFE COUNCIL POLITICAL ACTION v. SCULLY

No. 98-15308.

164 F.3d 1189 (1999)

CALIFORNIA PROLIFE COUNCIL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE; Service Employees Union, Local 22; AFC-CIO; California State Council of Service Employees/Cope; California Teachers Association; Association of Better Citizenship; Consumer Attorneys of California; Consumer Attorney Political Action; Consumer Attorneys Independent Campaign Committee; California Faculty Association Political Action Committee; San Mateo Labor Council; Richard Polanco; Polanco For Senate; Wright Roderick; Rod Wright For Assembly; Michael R. Shapiro; California Democratic Party; Howard S. Welinsky; Garry Shay; Michael Schroeder; California Republican Party; Bill Leonard; Leonard For Assembly '98 Committee; Lincoln Club of Orange County Committee for State and Local Candidates; Shawn Steel; Marc Wolin; Marjorie C. Swartz; Nell Soto; Dennis Sanchez; Michael Green; Michael Lewis; Douglas Dunlap, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jan SCULLY, District Attorney for Sacramento County, Defendant, and Fair Political Practices Commission, Defendant-Appellant, Ruth Holton; Tony Miller, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided January 5, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence T. Woodlock, Fair Political Practices Commission, Sacramento, California, for defendant-appellant Fair Political Practices Commission.

Bradley S. Phillips, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, California, for defendants-intervenors-appellants Ruth Holton and Tony Miller.

James Bopp, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, Indiana, for plaintiffs-appellees California Prolife Council Political Action Committee.

Joseph Remcho, Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, San Francisco, California, for plaintiffs-appellees Service Employees International Union.

John Mueller, Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, Mill Valley, California, for plaintiffs-appellees California Republican Party.

George Waters, Olson, Hagel, Fong, Leidigh, Waters & Fishburn, Sacramento, California, for plaintiffs-appellees California Democratic Party.

Before: REINHARDT, NOONAN, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

This is an appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction enjoining the enforcement of Proposition 208, a California campaign finance initiative adopted by the voters in 1996. When reviewing the grant of a preliminary injunction, our inquiry is narrow. See Gregorio T. v. Wilson, 59 F.3d 1002, 1004 (9th Cir.1995)(quoting Sports Form, Inc. v. United Press International, 686 F.2d 750

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