MN CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR LIFE v. KELLEY

No. A04-2376.

698 N.W.2d 424 (2005)

MINNESOTA CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR LIFE, INC.; David Racer; and the Committee for State Pro-Life Candidates, Appellants, v. Douglas A. KELLEY, Clyde Miller, Wil Fluegel, Sidney Pauly, Terri Ashmore and Robert Milbert in their capacities as Chair and members of the Campaign Finance and Disclosure Board; and Amy Klobuchar in her official capacity as County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 30, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Bopp, Jr., Jeffrey Gallant, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for Appellant.

Mike Hatch, Attorney General, Kristine L. Eiden, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Jennifer A. Service, Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul, MN, for Appellees.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


OPINION

ANDERSON, G. Barry, Justice.

This case comes to us as a certified question from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which asks us to determine whether the definitions of "political committee" and "political fund" in Minn.Stat. § 10A.01, subds. 27 and 28 should be construed consistent with Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, 96 S.Ct. 612, 46 L.Ed.2d 659 (1976). An unsuccessful candidate for the Minnesota Senate...

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