Legal Opinion
Illinois Liberty PAC v. Lisa Madigan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 13, 2018No. 16-3585PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Sykes, Circuit Judge.
Illinois Liberty PAC, Edgar Bachrach, and Kyle McCarter (collectively, "Liberty PAC") sued Illinois officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that certain campaign contribution limits set by the Illinois Disclosure and Regulation of Campaign Contributions and Expenditures Act ("the Act"), 10 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/9-1 et seq. (2016), violate the First Amendment. Invoking the intermediate-scrutiny framework *466 of Buckley v. Valeo , 424 U.S. 1 , 96 S.Ct. 612 , 46 L.Ed.2d 659 (1976), Liberty PAC challenges four parts of the Act that it contends are not closely drawn to prevent…
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