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GREEN PARTY OF CONNECTICUT v. GARFIELD

Nos. 09-0599-cv(L), 09-0609-cv(CON).

616 F.3d 189 (2010)

GREEN PARTY OF CONNECTICUT, S. Michael Derosa, Libertarian Party of Connecticut, Elizabeth Gallo, Joanne P. Philips, Ann C. Robinson, Roger C. Vann, Association of CT Lobbyists, and Barry Williams, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jeffrey GARFIELD, Richard Blumenthal, Patricia Hendel, Robert N. Worgaftik, Jaclyn Bernstein, Rebecca M. Doty, Enid Johns Oresman, Dennis Riley, Michael Rion, Scott A. Storms, Sister Salyl J. Tolles, and Benjamin Bycel, Defendants-Appellees, Audrey Blondin, Tom Sevigny, Common Cause of CT, and Connecticut Citizen Action Group, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 13, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Bartley Halloran, Farmington, CT, for plaintiffs-appellants Association of CT Lobbyists and Barry Williams.

Mark J. Lopez, Lewis, Clifton & Nikolaidis, P.C., New York, NY, (Benjamin Sahl, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, and David J. McGuire, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Hartford, CT, on the brief), for the remaining plaintiffs-appellants.

Perry Zinn-Rowthorn (Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, and Maura Murphy Osborne, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief), Office of the Attorney General of the State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, for defendants-appellees.

Ira M. Feinberg, Hogan & Hartson LLP, New York, NY, (Monica Y. Youn and Angela Migally, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law, New York, NY; and David Dunn, Hogan & Hartson LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for intervenor-defendants-appellees.

Justin R. Clark and Peter J. Martin, Pepe & Hazard LLP, Hartford, CT, for amicus curiae the Republican Party of Connecticut in support of plaintiffs-appellants.

Before KEARSE, CABRANES, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

This is the second of two opinions in which we consider a constitutional challenge to certain provisions of Connecticut's Campaign Finance Reform Act (CFRA).

As we describe in our first opinion, the CFRA was enacted in 2005 as a comprehensive effort to bring about campaign finance reform in Connecticut. In our first opinion, which we file separately, we consider a challenge to the Citizens Election Program (CEP), a part...

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