Legal Opinion
Common Cause v. Federal Election Commission
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 26, 1986No. Civ. A. No. 85-968PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOHN H. PRATT, District Judge.
Plaintiff Common Cause brings this action for judicial review of an order by the Federal Election Commission (the Commission) dismissing plaintiff’s administrative complaint. Common Cause alleges that President Reagan’s 1984 Presidential campaign committee violated the federal election laws by failing to pay for and report the expenses of a trip to Illinois, where the President addressed a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Common Cause brought these allegations before the Commission in an administrative complaint, which the Commission…
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