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IOWA RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE v. TOOKER

No. 11-1068.

808 N.W.2d 417 (2011)

IOWA RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE, INC., Plaintiff, v. Megan TOOKER, In Her Official Capacity as Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board Executive Director; James Albert, John Walsh, Patricia Harper, Gerald Sullivan, Saima Zafar, and Carole Tillotson, In Their Official Capacities as Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board Members, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 30, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean P. Moore , Brian P. Rickert , and Adam C. Gregg of Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross, Baskerville & Schoenebaum, P.L.C., Des Moines , James Bopp, Jr. , Richard E. Coleson , and Kaylan L. Phillips of Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, Indiana, for plaintiff.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Jeffrey S. Thompson , Deputy Attorney General, and Meghan L. Gavin , Assistant Attorney General, Des Moines, for defendants.

MANSFIELD, Justice.

We have been asked to answer two certified questions of law in a federal case brought by Iowa Right to Life Committee, Inc. (IRTL) challenging the constitutionality of Iowa's campaign finance laws. The nub of the matter is whether a corporation must form a "political committee" under Iowa law if it wants to spend more than seven hundred fifty dollars advocating the election or defeat of Iowa candidates. Although Iowa's laws are not entirely clear...

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