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Law Practice

Oct. 16, 2008

Panel Revives San Jose Election Law

A federal trial judge was wrong to invalidate a San Jose campaign finance law, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Tuesday.

By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal trial judge was wrong to invalidate a San Jose campaign finance law, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Tuesday.

A unanimous three-judge panel reversed U.S. District Judge James Ware of San Jose.

In 2006 Ware ruled unconstitutional a municipal ordinance limiting to $250 individual contributions to political committees making independent expenditures in local electi...

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