MINNESOTA CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR LIFE v. SWANSON

No. 10-3126.

692 F.3d 864 (2012)

MINNESOTA CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR LIFE, INC.; The Taxpayers League of Minnesota; Coastal Travel Enterprises, LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Lori SWANSON, Minnesota Attorney General, in her official capacity; Bob Milbert; John Scanlon; Terri Ashmore; Hilda Bettermann; Felicia Boyd; Greg McCullough, Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board Members, in their official capacities; Raymond Krause, Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings, in his official capacity; Eric Lipman, Assistant Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings, in his official capacity; Manuel Cervantes; Beverly Heydinger; Richard Luis; Steve Mihalchick; Barbara Neilson; Kathleen Sheehy, Administrative Law Judges of the Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings, in their official capacities; Michael Freeman, Hennepin County Attorney, in his official capacity, Defendants-Appellees, Campaign Legal Center; Democracy 21; The Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law, Amici on Behalf of Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: September 5, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Bopp, Jr. , argued, Richard Eugene Coleson and Randy Elf , Terre Haute, IN, for Appellants.

Alan Gilbert , Solicitor General, argued, St. Paul, MN, for Appellees.

Before RILEY, Chief Judge, WOLLMAN, LOKEN, MURPHY, BYE, MELLOY, SMITH, COLLOTON, GRUENDER, BENTON, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges, En Banc.


RILEY, Chief Judge, with whom WOLLMAN, LOKEN, GRUENDER, BENTON and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges, join.

Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, Inc. (Minnesota Citizens), The Taxpayers League of Minnesota (Taxpayers League), and Coastal Travel Enterprises, LLC (Coastal Travel) (collectively, appellants), sued various Minnesota state officials (collectively, Minnesota),1 challenging the constitutionality...

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