Legal Opinion
Anh Cao v. Federal Election Commission
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 10, 2010No. 10-30080, 10-30146PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
W. EUGENE DAVIS and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges:
The challenges raised in the present case require this court to decide whether certain provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act (“FECA” or “the Act”) of 1971, 2 U.S.C. § 431 et seq.,1 violate the *414Plaintiffs’ right to free speech under the First Amendment. Applying Supreme Court precedent, we conclude that each of the challenged FECA provisions constitutes a constitutionally permissible regulation of political parties’ campaign contributions and coordinated expenditures. Accordingly, we find that none of the challenged provisions…
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