Federal Election Commission v. International Funding Institute, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
969 F.2d 1110 · 1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 2 U.S.C. § 438 (§ 311 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Perry v. Sindermann · Buckley v. Valeo · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Procunier v. Martinez · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent
Most-quoted passages
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“Without the use restriction of § 438(a)(4), innumerable entrepreneurs would, like the defendants here, be able freely to appropriate to themselves part of the value of the contributor lists compiled by reporting political committees. As a result, such committees would have less incentive to compile the lists in the first place. In other words, if the return on their investment in solicitation would be reduced by others using the resulting lists, political committees would not find it worthwhile to solicit as much as they now do; they would raise less money, spend less money, and correspondingly underwrite less political discourse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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