Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC, the Arizona Taxpayers Action Committee, et al.
Petitioners
William R. Maurer, Counsel of Record On January 29, 2004, Arizona State Senator Dean Martin filed suit against the State of Arizona, contending that a provision of the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act violated his First Amendment right to free speech. As a privately funded candidate, he said, the provision of the law that provided matching campaign funds to his publicly financed candidates if he or supporting independent groups spent or raised over a set amount of money during the campaign made him less likely to engage in campaign speech. After a Federal district court initially dismissed his case, the…
