Legal Opinion
Shays v. Federal Election Commission
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 29, 2006No. Civ. 04-1597(EGS), Civ. 04-1612(EGS)PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
SULLIVAN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, Representatives Christopher Shays and Martin Meehan, and Bush-Cheney ’04, filed this action pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A), (C)-(D), claiming that the Federal Election Commission’s (“FEC”) failure to issue a rule governing when section 527 groups must register as political committees is arbitrary and capricious. Plaintiffs ask the Court to remand the case to the FEC to promulgate necessary and appropriate regulations defining the term “political committee” and defining when a 527 group must…
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