Beverly C. DAGGETT, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees,
v.
COMMISSION ON GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS AND ELECTION PRACTICES, et al., Defendants, Appellees.
Betheda Edmonds, et al., Proposed Intervenors-Defendants, Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued March 4, 1999.
Decided April 9, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Gillian E. Metzger with whom Glenn J. Moramarco, Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, John R. Brautigam and Arn H. Pearson, Maine Citizen Leadership Fund, were on brief, for appellants Betheda Edmonds, Kathleen McGee, Linda McKee, Peggy Pendleton and Elizabeth Watson.
Mark Lopez, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, with whom Nat Rosenblatt and Farrell, Rosenblatt & Russell were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellees Beverly C. Daggett, Elaine Fuller, Christopher M. Harte, Mark T. Cenci, Jeffrey I. Weinstein, Shawn Levasseur and Libertarian Party of Maine.
James Bopp, Jr. with whom Robert J. Newmeyer, Heidi K. Meyer, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Daniel M. Snow and Pierce Atwood were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellees Rollin Stearns, Maine Right to Life Committee Political Action Committee State Candidate Fund, and National Right to Life Political Action Committee State Fund.
Andrew S. Hagler, Assistant Attorney General, Phyllis Gardiner, Assistant Attorney General, Andrew Ketterer, Attorney General, and Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney General, Chief, Litigation Division, on brief, for defendants, appellees.
Before BOUDIN and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, and MAGILL, Senior Circuit Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal, by applicants whose motion to intervene was denied, stems from Maine's enactment in November 1996 of a set of campaign reform statutes. Adopted by Maine voters through a ballot initiative, the statute—denominated "An Act to Reform Campaign Finance" ("the Reform Act")—included both public funding of state campaigns and extensive regulation of contributions and expenditures. 1996 Me. Legis. Serv. Initiated Bill ch. 5...
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