ALASKA PUBLIC OFFICES COM'N v. PATRICK

Supreme Court No. S-17649.

494 P.3d 53 (2021)

ALASKA PUBLIC OFFICES COMMISSION, Petitioner, v. Donna PATRICK, James K. Barnett, and John P. Lambert, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 3, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura Fox , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Anchorage, and Clyde "Ed" Sniffen, Jr. , Acting Attorney General, Juneau, for Petitioner.

Jason Harrow and Lawrence Lessig , Equal Citizens, Los Angeles, California, and Elizabeth Hodes and M. Scott Broadwell , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Anchorage, for Respondents.

Before: Bolger, Chief Justice, Winfree, Maassen, and Carney, Justices. [Borghesan, Justice, not participating.]


OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

In 2012 the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC) issued an advisory opinion stating that the contribution limits in Alaska's campaign finance law are unconstitutional as applied to contributions to independent expenditure groups. In 2018 three individuals filed complaints with APOC...

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