Legal Opinion
Scott v. Roberts
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 30, 2010No. 10-13211PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
In this emergency appeal from the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction, Richard Scott, who is a candidate for the Republican Party for Governor of the State of Florida, asks that we preliminarily enjoin the enforcement of a provision of the Florida Election Campaign Financing Act that he contends violates his rights, under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, to spend unlimited sums of his personal funds and private donations to his campaign in furtherance of his candidacy. To date, Scott, who has never run for public office and is largely self-funding his…
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