NORTH CAROLINA RIGHT TO LIFE, INC. v. LEAKE

No. 5:99CV00798.

108 F.Supp.2d 498 (2000)

NORTH CAROLINA RIGHT TO LIFE, INC., North Carolina Right to Life Political Action Committee, and North Carolina Right to Life Committee Fund for Independent Political Expenditures, Plaintiffs, v. Larry LEAKE, in his official capacity as Chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, S. Katherine Burnette, in her official capacity as Secretary of the State Board of Elections, Faiger M. Blackwell, in his official capacity as a Member of the State Board of Elections, June K. Youngblood, in her official capacity as a Member of the State Board of Elections, Dorothy Presser, in her official capacity as a Member of the State Board of Elections, Horace M. Kimel, Jr., in his official capacity as District Attorney for North Carolina Prosecutorial District 15A, Mike Easley, in his official capacity as the North Carolina Attorney General, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. North Carolina, Western Division.

August 10, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Stam, Jr., Stam, Fordham & Danchi, Apex, NC, James Bopp, Jr., B. Chad Bungard, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for North Carolina Right to Life, Inc., plaintiff.

Susan Kelly Nichols, N.C. Dept. of Justice, Raleigh, NC, Alexander McClure Peters, Spec. Dep. Aty. Gen., N.C. Dept. of Justice, Raleigh, NC, for Larry Leake, in his official capacity as Chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, defendant.


ORDER

TERRENCE WILLIAM BOYLE, Chief Judge.

This case is before the Court on Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction pursuant to Rule 65(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Plaintiffs challenge the constitutionality of several provisions of North Carolina's election laws regulating campaign finance. In accordance with the reasoning laid out below, Plaintiffs' motion will be granted in part and denied in part.

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