Legal Opinion
Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Wash. v. Fed. Election Comm'n
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 20, 2018No. Case No. 16–cv–2255 (CRC)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge
This is the second in a series of cases involving the Federal Election Commission and its (non)regulation of American Action Network, Inc. ("AAN"), a self-described "issue-oriented action tank" that ran nearly $18 million in television advertisements just before the 2010 federal midterm elections. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington-a watchdog group known as "CREW"-contends that AAN's spending on these ads rendered it a "political committee" as defined in the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. And, according to CREW,…
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