Legal Opinion
Lou J. Briggs Citizens for Lou Briggs v. Ohio Elections Commission Judith D. Moss Michael H. Igoe George A. Leonard Alphonse P. Cincione
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 7, 1995No. 94-3513PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
Lou Briggs, and her campaign committee, Citizens for Lou Briggs, appeal the district court’s dismissal of her First and Fourteenth Amendment claims against the Ohio Elections Commission (Commission). We find that her case was improperly dismissed, and we reverse.
I
Lou Briggs ran unsuccessfully for the office of Ohio State Representative for the 28th District, in the November 3, 1992 general election. She paid for a billboard that stated:
Lou
Briggs
State Representative
Strong New Leadership
Her opponent, Edward Thomas, filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission,…
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