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Ninth Circuit· 8/12/2003

Jacobus v. Alaska

Citations

  • 338 F.3d 1095
  • 2003 Daily Journal DAR 9026
  • 2003 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 7203
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 16435

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  • holding that a § 1983 action challenging Alaska’s campaign finance laws was not moot, even though the statutes in question had been repealed, because the State’s voluntary cessation of its alleged wrong- doing did not foreclose the possibility of future reenactment
  • “Limitations on contributions affect the right of association, but unlike expenditure limits, do not primarily implicate the contributor’s speech rights.”
  • “In fact, in Colorado Repub- lican II the Court specifically rejected the contention that party contributions merited a stricter standard of scrutiny . . . .”
  • limits on “soft money” contributions to political parties

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