Legal Opinion
Federal Election Commission v. The Larouche Campaign
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 27, 1987No. 822, Docket 86-6229PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Per curiam
In this appeal, The Larouche Campaign, Inc. (“the campaign”) challenges the breadth of a subpoena issued by the Federal Election Commission (“FEC”) as part of an FEC investigation of the campaign’s 1984 conduct in support of the bid of Lyndon Larouche for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Because we conclude that the subpoena, even as modified by the district court, is overly broad in an area raising significant first amendment concerns, we affirm enforcement of the subpoena only as further modified herein.
BACKGROUND
In November 1984 the FEC launched an investigation into the…
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