FAMILY TRUST FOUNDATION OF KENTUCKY, INC. v. WOLNITZEK

No. CIV. A. 6:04-473-DCR.

345 F.Supp.2d 672 (2004)

FAMILY TRUST FOUNDATION OF KENTUCKY, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Stephen D. WOLNITZEK, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Kentucky, London Division.

October 19, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Bopp, Jr., Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, Leroy Arlis Gilbert, Jr., Gilbert Law Office, Corbin, KY, Thomas J. Marzen, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for Family Trust Foundation of Kentucky, Inc., dba Kentucky Candidate Information Survey, Leonard Lester, Stephen Toadvine, M.D., Plaintiffs.

Escum L. Moore, III, Savage, Elliott, Houlihan, Moore, Mullins & Erdmann, LLP, Lexington, KY, George F. Rabe, Lexington, KY, Robert F. Houlihan, Jr., Moore, Mullins & Erdmann, LLP, Lexington, KY, for Stephen D. Wolnitzek, R.D. Dyche, III, Stephen N. Frazier, William P. Ryan, Jr., Diane Logsdon, Joyce King Jennings.

Linda A. Gosnell, Kentucky Bar Association, Frankfort, Susan C. Sears, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Lexington, KY, for Gregory A. Lay.

Linda A. Gosnell, Kentucky Bar Association, Frankfort, Susan C. Sears, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Lexington, KY, Michael W. Hawkins, Dinsmore & Shohl, Cincinnati, OH, for Gardner L. Turner, Margaret E. Keane, Phyllis Lonneman, Mark G. Arnzen, Roger W. Hall, Roland D. Mullins, Barbara Allen Howard, Jim Nealy, Linda A. Gosnell, Jay R. Garrett, Dana Cox Nickles, Cindra K. Walker, Steven T. Pulliam, Jenny D. Lafferty, Cary B. Howard.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING PARTIAL INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

REEVES, District Judge.

I. Introduction

This case involves the constitutionality of limitations placed on statements of candidates for judicial office in this Commonwealth. This matter is currently pending for consideration of the Plaintiffs' motion for a temporary injunction.

The judicial canon at the center of this controversy is contained in Rule 4.300 of the Rules of the...

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