Category: Courts & Cases

League of Women Voters of Florida v. Browning

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date August 6, 2008
Categories In Const Law Issues, Courts & Cases, Florida

Today an opinion has been released in League of Women Voters of Florida v. Browning (case background here) denying a Motion for Preliminary Injunction. This interesting case involves third party voter registration issues and activities.

EMILY’S List

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date August 5, 2008
Categories In Const Law Issues, Courts & Cases

The web has some information on the author of EMILY’s List v. FEC. Click here for the District Court’s website’s biography of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. Wikipedia also has an entry. A previous opinion (finding constitutional BCRA’s electioneering communications provisions), quoting Elihu Root, is familiar to those who follow campaign finance law. Warning, the file is […]

Opponents of Self-funders “Scramble”

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 7, 2008
Categories In Const Law Issues, Courts & Cases, FEC

Yesterday’s Post included “Fundraising Ruling Prompts a Scramble.” In some states, primary campaigns involving wealthy, self-financed candidates already have been completed under the rules now deemed unconstitutional. Elsewhere, the landscape of campaigns still underway has suddenly shifted. The Court’s June 26, 2008 opinion in FEC v. Davis is here.