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Nov 17, 2006 -- Legal Center Weekly Report: November 17, 2006 Legal Center and the Connecticut Public Financing Case
On November 16, 2006, the U.S. District Court of the District of Connecticut entered an order setting the schedule for discovery and all dispositive motions in Green Party of Connecticut v. Garfield. This case was brought by the Green Party and the Connecticut ACLU and has been consolidated with a second suit, Association of CT Lobbyists v. Garfield. These consolidated cases challenge the constitutionality of Connecticut's recently-enacted public financing system and the restriction on campaign contributions from lobbyists and state contractors. According to the court order, all dispositive motions are due by March 19, 2007, and discovery must be complete by June 15, 2007.
The Campaign Legal Center is serving as co-counsel to a group of proposed intervening defendants in this matter: Connecticut Citizen Action Group and Common Cause of Connecticut; and certain individuals who are either former candidates for state office or may be candidates in the future. The motion to intervene was filed October 17 and remains pending. Co-counsel for the intervenors-defendants include: the Brennan Center, Democracy 21, Donald J. Simon of Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry, and the law firm, WilmerHale.
To read the complaint in this case, click here, and to read the proposed intervenors' motion to intervene, click here.
Legal Center Blog Highlights
Each week, the Legal Center staff posts blog entries on its site, www.clcblog.org. Click to read this week's entries: "WEA Cases 'Are Not Campaign Finance Cases'?," o r to sign up for blog updates, click here.
To read a variety of this week's editorials and articles on campaign finance, including an op-ed by Meredith McGehee titled "How Congress Should Tackle Its Institutional Corruption" please click here. |
