Legal Opinion
State v. Green Mountain Future
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided September 27, 2013No. 2012-072PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDooley, J.
¶ 1. Appellant Green Mountain Future (GMF) appeals the summary judgment decision of the trial court finding that it is a political action committee (PAC) and violated a number of provisions of the Vermont campaign finance laws. GMF maintains that the trial court erred in not applying a narrowing construction created by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1976 case of Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. (1976), to the definition of a PAC under Vermont campaign finance laws, and that without that construction the registration and disclosure laws are unconstitutional under the overbreadth doctrine of the First…
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