Legal Opinion
Dallman v. Ritter
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided February 22, 2010No. 09SA224PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rice
delivers the Opinion of the Court.
Plaintiffs-appellees challenge the constitutionality of Amendment 54, now codified as parts of article XXVIII of the Colorado Constitution. Voters narrowly passed Amendment 54 in November 2008, and it became operational on December Sist of that year. Colo. Const. art XXVIII, § 18. Designed to eliminate "a presumption of impropriety between contributions to any campaign and sole source government contracts," the Amendment prohibits and imposes severe penalties on campaign donations from those holding sole source contracts to "any candidate for any elected…
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