Legal Opinion
Dean v. Blumenthal
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 11, 2009No. Docket 07-1986-cvPublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Per curiam
Martha Dean appeals from an April 9, 2007 judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Thompson, /.), dismissing her complaint. Dean, a former and possibly future candidate for Attorney General in Connecticut, argues that a contractual prohibition on contributions to candidates for the Office of the Attorney General from, inter alia, certain employees of private law firms that performed legal work for the State violated Dean’s rights under the First Amendment. Because the challenged contractual language has not been enforced in over six years and could not…
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