Legal Opinion · Concurrence
Citizens Committee for the D.C. Video Lottery Terminal Initiative v. District of Columbia Board of Elections & Ethics
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 28, 2004No. 04-AA-957Published
1ConcurrenceRuiz, Associate Judge
I cannot agree that the Board’s disqualification of the signatures gathered by all the circulators affiliated with the Stars & Stripes operation can be squared with the demands of the First Amendment or brought within our decided cases. The Board’s ultimate determination is nonetheless sustainable on a narrower ground subsumed in the Board’s opinion.
Notwithstanding generalized allegations, the evidence of specific misconduct was limited to a third of the seventy-nine circu-lators affiliated with Stars & Stripes. The Board had testimonial evidence of wrongdoing by thirteen circulators,1 and…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Securities & Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Whitney v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1999
- Guilford Transportation Industries, Inc. v. WilnerDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 2000
- Thomas v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1982
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