Legal Opinion
Reader's Digest Ass'n v. Federal Election Commission
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 19, 1981No. 81 Civ. 596 (PNL)PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
LEVAL, District Judge.
The Reader’s Digest Association (RDA) sues to enjoin the Federal Election Commission (FEC) from proceeding with an investigation into whether RDA violated certain sections of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, 2 U.S.C. § 431 et seq., “by making expenditures to disseminate to other media outlets video tapes of a computer reenactment of Senator Kennedy’s accident at Chappaquiddick.... ” According to the RDA, the video tape was part of a study commissioned from an engineer, Raymond McHenry, an expert in auto accident reconstruction, as research for…
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