R.I. AFFILIATE, AM. CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, INC. v. BEGIN

C.A. No. 04-487-T.

431 F.Supp.2d 227 (2006)

RHODE ISLAND AFFILIATE, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, INC., and Steven Brown, individually and in his capacity as Executive Director of Rhode Island Affiliate, American Civil Liberties Union, Inc., Plaintiffs, The Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, Intervenor Plaintiff, v. Roger N. BEGIN, in his official capacity as Chairman of the Rhode Island Board of Elections, Thomas V. Iannitti, Judith H. Bailey, John A. Daluz, Florence G. Johnson, Frank J. Rego, and Raymond A. Xavier, in their capacities as Commissioners of the Rhode Island Board of Elections, and George Bowen, in his official capacity as Acting Executive Director, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

April 25, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard A. Merten, Partridge, Snow & Hahn LLP, Providence, RI, for ACLU and Steven Brown.

James W. Ryan, Partridge, Snow & Hahn LLP, Providence, RI, for Greater Prov. Chamber of Commerce.

Christine M. Curley, North Kingstown, RI, Raymond A. Marcaccio, Oliverio & Marcaccio, LLP, Providence, RI, for Defendants.

Thomas R. Bender, Hanson Curran LLP, Providence, RI, for Common Cause of Rhode Island.

Mitchell R. Edwards, Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, Robert G. Flanders, Jr., Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP, Providence, RI, for Rhode Island Foundation and the United Way of Rhode Island.

Louis J. Saccoccio, U.R.I., Office of the Legal Counsel, Kingston, RI, for the University of Rhode Island.

Thomas A. Palombo, Asst. Atty. General, Attorney General's Office, Providence, RI, for Patrick C. Lynch, Attorney General, State of Rhode Island.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TORRES, Chief Judge.

Introduction

The Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union ("the ACLU"); Steven Brown, its executive director; and the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce ("the Chamber"), as Intervenor, (collectively, "the plaintiffs"), seek declaratory and injunctive relief regarding portions of Rhode Island's "Campaign Contributions and Expenditures Reporting Act" (R.I. Gen. Laws §&...

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