federal-election-commission

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-6115 Danny Fabricant v. Federal Election Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2022-11-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing campaign-finance constitutional-law constitutional-qualifications declaratory-judgment equal-protection federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission prisoner-litigation standing statutory-interpretation 1. Does 52 U.S.C. § 30101's REQUIREMENT, that potential candidates for the House of Representatives report (either) the receipt of more that $5,000 in…
20-1424 ACE American Insurance Company, et al. v. MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived conditional-payment double-damages eleventh-circuit federal-election-commission lexmark-international liability-allocation medicare-reimbursement medicare-secondary-payer policy-considerations statutory-interpretation statutory-standing When Medicare has made a conditional payment for healthcare services on behalf of a Medicare beneficiary, 42 U.S.C. § 1395y(b)(3)(A) provides a cause …
20-649 Level the Playing Field, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2020-11-13 Denied Amici (3) candidate-endorsement civil-rights debate-staging debate-staging-organization election-regulations federal-commission federal-election-commission free-speech objective-criteria partisan-criteria political-activities standing 1. Whether the partisan political activities of a debate-staging organization's decisionmakers bear upon whether the organization "endorse[s], support…
19-777 Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-18 Denied administrative-procedure article-iii article-iii-standing census-citizenship-question e-government-act federal-election-commission freedom-of-information informational-injury injury-in-fact mootness munsingwear-vacatur privacy-impact-assessment public-information standing-injury-in-fact statutory-disclosure vacatur 1. Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact "when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to …
19-484 John Doe 1, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2019-10-15 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-enforcement confidential-investigation constitutional-avoidance disclosure disclosure-limitations federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission first-amendment rulemaking-power statutory-interpretation Whether, notwithstanding FECA's express bar on prohibiting the disclosure of any investigation, and its careful constraints on the FEC's disclosure po…
19-234 Libertarian National Committee, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2019-08-22 Denied Amici (3) campaign-finance content-based-restrictions deceased-donor federal-election-commission first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech political-contributions political-parties testamentary-bequest testamentary-bequests 1. In the asserted interest of preventing quid pro quo corruption, the Federal Election Commission limits the amount of money that a political party m…
18-606 Dimitrios N. Kesari, aka Dimitri Kesari v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied campaign-finance criminal-law disbursement-disclosure disclosure-requirements false-reporting federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission purpose-statements reporting-requirements The Federal Election Campaign Act ("FECA") requires that candidates for federal elected office report certain disbursements to the Federal Election Co…
18-601 John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Amici (3) agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand 1. Does an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicate a "matter within" the agency's "jurisdiction" under 18 U.S.…
18-442 Jesse R. Benton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied 18-usc-1001 campaign-finance false-statement falsity fec feca federal-election-commission materiality materiality-requirement reporting-violations sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act statutory-interpretation 1. WHETHER THE MATERIALITY REQUIREMENT IN 18 USC SECTION 1001 CAN BE TURNED INTO A MERE FALSITY REQUIREMENT IN THE FEC REPORTING CONTEXT OR WHETHER TH…