LANDELL v. SORRELL

No. 2:99-CV-146.

118 F.Supp.2d 459 (2000)

Marcella LANDELL, et al., Plaintiffs, Neil Randall, et al., Plaintiffs, and Vermont Republican State Committee, Plaintiff, v. William H. SORRELL, et al., Defendants, and Vermont Public Interest Research Group, et al., Defendant-Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Vermont.

As Amended August 28, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Bopp, Jr., James R. Mason, III, Heidi K. Meyer, Eric C. Bohnet, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, Norman Charles Smith, Meyers & Smith, Essex Junction, VT, for Marcella Landell, Vermont Republican State Committee, plaintiffs.

James Bopp, Jr., James R. Mason, III, Heidi K. Meyer, Eric C. Bohnet, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, Norman Charles Smith, Meyers & Smith, Essex Junction, VT, for Donald R. Brunelle, plaintiff.

Joshua Ross Diamond, Diamond & Robinson, Montpelier, VT, Peter Forbes Langrock, Mitchell Lloyd Pearl, Langrock, Sperry & Wool, Middlebury, VT, David Seth Putter, Law Offices of David Putter, Montpelier, VT, Melanie McNeill Kehne, Primmer & Piper, P.C., Montpelier, VT, Eric C. Bohnet, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, Mark Lopez, American Civil Liberties Union, New York City, for Neil Randall, George Kuusela, Steve Howard, Jeffrey A. Nelson, John Patch, Vermont Libertarian Party, plaintiffs.

Timothy Bert Tomasi, Office of the Attorney General, Montpelier, VT, Eve Rebekah Jacobs-Carnahan, Montpelier, VT, for William H. Sorrell, in his official capacity as Vermont Attorney General, defendants.

Peter Francis Welch, Welch, Graham & Manby, White River Jct, VT, John C. Bonifaz, Brenda Wright, Gregory G. Luke, Bonita P. Tenneriello, National Voting Rights Institute, Boston, MA, for intervenors-defendants.


ORDER AND OPINION

SESSIONS, District Judge.

This is a constitutional challenge to the 1997 Vermont Campaign Finance Reform Act ("Act 64"), codified at Vt.Stat.Ann. tit. 17, Chapter 59 §§ 2801-2883. Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief under Section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. U.S.C.A. Const. Amends. 1 and 14. Plaintiffs argue...

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