BOONE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, HARDIN COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, and JESSAMINE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE v. H. DAVID WALLACE, LAURA MARIE BENNETT, JESSICA BURKE, RICHARD LARKIN, ADRIAN MENDIONDO, THOMAS O’BRIEN, and J. BISSELL ROBERTS, in their official capacities as board members of the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance; JOHN STEFFEN, in his official capacity as the Executive Director of the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance - Articles

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BOONE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, HARDIN COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, and JESSAMINE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE v. H. DAVID WALLACE, LAURA MARIE BENNETT, JESSICA BURKE, RICHARD LARKIN, ADRIAN MENDIONDO, THOMAS O’BRIEN, and J. BISSELL ROBERTS, in their official capacities as board members of the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance; JOHN STEFFEN, in his official capacity as the Executive Director of the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Sep 5, 2024

Court: 6th Circuit Court (Published Opinions)

Attorneys 1: ON MOTION FOR INJUNCTION PENDING APPEAL and REPLY: Christopher Wiest, Theodore Roberts, CHRIS WIEST, ATTY AT LAW, PLLC, Covington, Kentucky, Thomas B. Bruns, BRUNS, CONNELL, VOLLMAR & ARMSTRONG, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellants.

Attorneys 2: ON RESPONSE: Leslie M. Saunders, KENTUCKY REGISTRY OF ELECTION FIANANCE, Frankfort, Kentucky for Appellees.

Attorneys 3: ON AMICUS BRIEF: Matthew F. Kuhn, John H. Heyburn, Elizabeth Hedges, OFFICE OF THE KENTUCKY ATTORNEY GENERAL, Frankfort, Kentucky, for Amicus Curiae.

Judge(s): MOORE, GILMAN, and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges

Court Appealed: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky at Frankfort

KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge. Three Kentucky Republican Party county executive committees challenge the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance’s prohibition on expending funds in support of a state constitutional amendment on the November general- election ballot. The district court denied the executive committees’ application for a preliminary injunction. The executive committees seek an injunction pending appeal of the preliminary- injunction decision. Because we conclude that the executive committees are likely to succeed on the merits of their First Amendment claim, we grant the injunction pending appeal and order expedited briefing on the appeal of the denial of the executive committees’ motion for preliminary injunction.

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