Shrink Missouri Government Political Action Committee and Zev Fredman
Respondents
D. Bruce La Pierre, Counsel of RecordZev Fredman was a candidate in the 1998 Republican primary for the office of Missouri State Auditor, while Shrink Missouri Government Political Action Committee was one of his financial supporters. On March 2, Fredman and Shrink PAC filed suit alleging that a Missouri statute limiting individual contributions to candidates to $1,075 violated Fredman’s freedom of speech because he could not raise the funds necessary to mount an effective campaign. D. Bruce La Pierre is a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught constitutional law, civil rights, and Federal…