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09-0599-cv(L), 09-0609-cv(CON)

       

Green Party of Connecticut v. Garfield



UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

August Term 2009

(Argued January 13, 2010                                                                        

Decided July 13, 2010)

Docket Nos. 09-0599-cv(L), 09-0609-cv(CON)

G

REEN 



P

ARTY OF 


C

ONNECTICUT

,

 

S.



 

M

ICHAEL 



D

EROSA


,

 

L



IBERTARIAN 

P

ARTY OF 



C

ONNECTICUT

,

E

LIZABETH 



G

ALLO


,

 

J



OANNE 

P.

 



P

HILIPS


,

 

A



NN 

C.

 



R

OBINSON


,

 

R



OGER 

C.

 



V

ANN


,

 

A



SSOCIATION OF 

CT

L



OBBYISTS

,

 



and B

ARRY 


W

ILLIAMS


,

 

Plaintiffs-Appellants,

v.

J

EFFREY 



G

ARFIELD


,

 

R



ICHARD 

B

LUMENTHAL



,

 

P



ATRICIA 

H

ENDEL



,

 

R



OBERT 

N.

 



W

ORGAFTIK


,

 

J



ACLYN

B

ERNSTEIN



,

 

R



EBECCA 

M.

 



D

OTY


,

 

E



NID 

J

OHNS 



O

RESMAN


,

 

D



ENNIS 

R

ILEY



,

 

M



ICHAEL 

R

ION



,

 

S



COTT

A.

 



S

TORMS


,

 

S



ISTER 

S

ALLY 



J.

 

T



OLLES

,  and B

ENJAMIN 

B

YCEL



,

Defendants-Appellees,

A

UDREY 



B

LONDIN


,

 

T



OM 

S

EVIGNY



,

 

C



OMMON 

C

AUSE OF 



CT,

 

and



 

C

ONNECTICUT 



C

ITIZEN 


A

CTION


G

ROUP


,

Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants.

Before K


EARSE

,

 



C

ABRANES


,

 

and



 

H

ALL



,

 

Circuit Judges.

Appeal from a February 11, 2009 partial final judgment of the United States District Court

for the District of Connecticut (Stefan R. Underhill, Judge) entered after the Court granted summary

judgment to defendants, upholding several provisions of Connecticut’s Campaign Finance Reform

Act (CFRA) against a First Amendment challenge.

We affirm the judgment of the District Court insofar as it upheld certain provisions banning

state contractors and associated individuals from making campaign contributions to candidates for

state office.



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We reverse the judgment of the District Court insofar as it upheld certain provisions

(a) banning lobbyists from making campaign contributions and (b) banning contractors and

lobbyists from soliciting contributions on behalf of candidates for state office.  We hold that those

provisions violate the First Amendment.

 In a judgment entered September 2, 2009, the District Court disposed of additional claims

challenging Connecticut’s Citizen Election Program, a part of the CFRA that provides public funds

to candidates running for state office.  We address an appeal of the September 2, 2009 judgment in a

separately filed opinion. 

R.

 



B

ARTLEY 


H

ALLORAN


,

 

Farmington, Connecticutfor



plaintiffs-appellants Association of CT Lobbyists and Barry Williams.

M

ARK 



J.

 

L



OPEZ

, Lewis, Clifton & Nikolaidis, P.C., New

York, New York (Benjamin Sahl, American Civil Liberties

Union Foundation, New York, New York and David J.

McGuire, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation,

Hartford, Connecticut, on the brief), for the remaining plaintiffs-



appellants.

I

RA 



M.

 

F



EINBERG

, Hogan & Hartson LLP, New York, New

York (Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, Perry Zinn

Rowthorn and Maura Murphy Osborne, Assistant Attornies

General, Office of the Attorney General of the State of

Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut; Monica Y. Youn and

Angela Migally, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of

Law, New York, New York; and David Dunn, Hogan &

Hartson LLP, New York, New York, on the brief), for defendants-

appellees and intervenor-defendants-appellees.

Justin R. Clark and Peter J. Martin, Pepe & Hazard LLP,

Hartford, Connecticut, for amicus curiae the Republican Party of

Connecituct in support of plaintiffs-appellants.

J

OSÉ 



A.

 

C



ABRANES

,

 



Circuit Judge:

This is the second of two opinions in which we consider a constitutional challenge to certain

provisions of Connecticut’s Campaign Finance Reform Act (CFRA).  



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