SHRINK MISSOURI GOVERNMENT PAC v. ADAMS

No. 98-2351.

204 F.3d 838 (2000)

SHRINK MISSOURI GOVERNMENT PAC, a political action committee; Zev David Fredman, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Richard ADAMS, in his official capacity as a Member of the Missouri Ethics Commission; Patricia Flood, in her official capacity as a Member of the Missouri Ethics Commission; Robert Gardner, in his official capacity as a Member of the Missouri Ethics Commission; Ervin Harder, in his official capacity as a Member of the Missouri Ethics Commission; John Howald, in his official capacity as Chairman of the Missouri Ethics Commission; Elaine Spielbusch, in her official capacity as a Member of the Missouri Ethics Commission; Jeremiah W. Nixon, in his official capacity as Missouri Attorney General; Robert P. McCullough, in his official capacity as St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney, Defendants-Appellees Joan Bray, Missouri State Representative; Common Cause, a non-profit, non-partisan membership corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, Movants Joan Bray, Movant-Intervenor on Appeal Common Cause, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 29, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Bruce La Pierre, St. Louis, Missouri (Patric Lester, St. Louis, Missouri, on the brief), for appellants.

James Robert Layton, Jefferson City, Missouri (Jeremiah (Jay) Nixon, Atty. Gen. and Paul R. Maguffee, Jefferson City, Missouri, on the brief), for appellee.

Deborah Goldberg, New York, New York (Gerald P. Greiman, St. Louis, Missouri, and Nancy Northup and Burt Neuborne, New York, New York, on the brief), for intervenor.

Before BOWMAN, ROSS, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

This case returns to this court after we have received the judgment from the United States Supreme Court. We conclude that our appropriate course is to remand to the district court with instructions to affirm its order and judgment entered on May 12, 1998.

In our previous opinion, we held unconstitutional the contribution limits imposed by Missouri Senate Bill 650. See Shrink Missouri...

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