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 Does 52 U.S.C. § 30101's requirement that potential candidates for the House of Representatives report contributions or expenditures before being cons…
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 Should the Court grant certiorari to review and summarily reverse the decision of the Eleventh Circuit holding that Respondent has statutory standing …
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 Whether the partisan political activities of a debate-staging organization's decisionmakers bear upon whether the organization 'endorse|[s], support[s…
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 Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to a st…
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 the FEC may disclose records of an investigation it declined to pursue
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 Whether limiting the size of a deceased donor's uncoordinated testamentary bequest to a political party violates the party's First Amendment right to …
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 Whether and under what circumstances a report to the Federal Election Commission that does not specify the ultimate recipient of a campaign disburseme…
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 Whether an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicates a 'matter within' the agency's jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C…
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 Whether the materiality requirement in 18 USC Section 1001 can be turned into a mere falsity requirement in the FEC reporting context or whether the s…