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VERMONT RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE, INC. v. SORRELL

No. 12-2904-cv.

758 F.3d 118 (2014)

VERMONT RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE, INC. and Vermont Right To Life Committee-Fund For Independent Political Expenditures, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William H. SORRELL, In His Official Capacity As Vermont Attorney General, David R. Fenster, Erica Marthage, Lisa Warren, T.J. Donovan, Vincent Illuzzi, James Hughes, David Miller, Joel Page, William Porter, Alan Franklin, Marc D. Brierre, Thomas Kelly, Tracy Shriver, and Robert Sand, In Their Official Capacities As Vermont State's Attorneys, and James C. Condos, In His Official Capacity As Secretary of State, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 2, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randy Elf ( James Bopp, Jr. , on the brief), James Madison Center for Free Speech, Terre Haute, IN, for Vermont Right to Life Committee, Inc. and Vermont Right to Life Committee — Fund for Independent Political Expenditures.

Eve R. Jacobs-Carnahan ( Megan J. Shafritz , on the brief), Assistant Attorneys General for the State of Vermont, Montpelier, VT, for William H. Sorrell, et al.

George Jepsen , Attorney General for the State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT; Maura Murphy Osborne , Assistant Attorney General for the State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, for amici curiae States of CT, NY, HI, IA, KY, MN, MT, NM, and WA, in support of William H. Sorrell, et al.

J. Gerald Hebert , The Campaign Legal Center, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae The Campaign Legal Center, and Democracy 21, in support of William H. Sorrell, et al.

Before WESLEY and DRONEY, Circuit Judges, and BRICCETTI, Judge.

DRONEY, Circuit Judge:

The two Plaintiffs-Appellants here are Vermont Right to Life Committee, Inc. ("VRLC") and Vermont Right to Life Committee — Fund for Independent Political Expenditures ("VRLC-FIPE"). VRLC is a Vermont non-profit corporation and VRLC-FIPE is a political committee formed under Vermont law. Both advocate the "universal recognition of the sanctity of human life from conception through natural death." J.A. 657, ECF No. 34. VRLC challenges...

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