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NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE v. McKEE

Civil No. 09-538-B-H.

723 F.Supp.2d 245 (2010)

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE and American Principles in Action, Plaintiffs v. Walter F. McKEE, in his official capacity as member of the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Maine.

August 19, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Bopp, Jr. , Randy Elf , Jeffrey Gallant , Josiah Neeley , Joseph Vanderhulst , Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, Stephen C. Whiting , The Whiting Law Firm, Portland, ME, for Plaintiffs.

Phyllis Gardiner , Thomas A. Knowlton , Assistant Attorney Generals, Office of the Maine Attorney General, Augusta, ME, for Defendants.

BENCH TRIAL DECISION AND ORDER ON MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

D. BROCK HORNBY, District Judge.

This case pits an advocacy organization's First Amendment right to engage in political speech free of regulation against the voting public's right to know who is speaking about candidates for state and local office. It comes in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission1 that...

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