N.C. RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE FUND v. LEAKE

NORTH CAROLINA RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE FUND FOR INDEPENDENT POLITICAL EXPENDITURES; North Carolina State Political Action Committee; W. Russell Duke, Jr., Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Barbara Jackson, Plaintiff, v. Larry LEAKE, in his official capacity as the Chairperson of the North Carolina Board of Elections; Lorraine G. Shinn, in her official capacity as a member of the North Carolina State Board of Elections; Charles Winfree, in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina State Board of Elections; Genevieve C. Sims, in her official capacity as a member of the North Carolina State Board of Elections; Robert Cordle, in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina State Board of Elections; Roy Cooper, in his official capacity as the Attorney General for the State of North Carolina; C. Colon Willoughby, Jr., in his official capacity as District Attorney for Wake County; Robert Stuart Albright, in his official capacity as District Attorney for Guilford County, and as a representative of the class of District Attorneys in the State of North Carolina, Defendants-Appellees, James R. Ansley; Common Cause North Carolina, Intervenors-Defendants-Appellees, and Keith M. Kapp; J. Michael Booe, in his official capacity as Vice-Chairperson of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; David Benbow, in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; David Yates Bingham, in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; Gilbert W. Chichester, in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; Renny W. Deese, in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; Jim R. Funderburk, in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; John E. Gehrig, in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; Isaac Heard, Jr., in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; Patricia L. Holland, in her official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; Margaret Hunt, in her official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; Margaret McCreary, in her official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; David T. Phillips, in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; Fred D. Poisson, Sr., in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; Donald C. Prentiss, in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; Richard Roose, in his official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; Jan H. Samet, in her official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee; Judy D. Thompson, in her official capacity as a member of the North Carolina Bar Administrative Committee, Defendants. Democracy North Carolina; American Judges Association; Campaign Legal Center, Incorporated; Center for Civic Policy; Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action; Illinois Campaign for Political Reform; League of Women Voters of the United States; League of Women Voters of North Carolina; Progressive Maryland; Public Citizen, Incorporated; Reform Institute; S. Gerald Arnold; G.K. Butterfield; J. Phil Carlton; Henry E. Frye; K. Edward Greene; Harry C. Martin; Francis I. Parker; Willis P. Whichard, Amici Supporting Appellee.