Legal Opinion
Holmes v. Federal Election Commission
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 20, 2015No. Civil Action No. 2014-1243PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, United States District Judge
Laura Holmes and Paul Jost challenge the constitutionality of a provision in the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) that limits individual donors to contributing $2,600 per election to candidates running for federal office. Plaintiffs insist that they do not oppose the amount of money that an individual may contribute to a candidate for an election ($2,600), acknowledging that any such challenge would be foreclosed by Buckley v. Valeo and its progeny. Instead, Plaintiffs argue that the central question, which has yet to be addressed by…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Lewis v. CaseySupreme Court of the United States · 1996
- Buckley v. ValeoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Murphy v. HuntSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Citizens United v. Federal Election CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Holmes v. Federal Election CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2016
- Holmes v. Federal Election CommissionDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2017
- Laura Holmes v. FECCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2017
- National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election CommissionDistrict Court, S.D. Ohio · 2023