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FEC and CREW marshall forces against O'Donnell

By Richard Binder

Not a week after Pierce O'Donnell's case goes to appeal, prosecutorial support arrives.

In a brief filed on Sept. 23 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, the Federal Election Commission called a trial judge's ruling throwing out most of the case "an absurd result" that "contradicts over thirty years of Commission and judicial interpretations." Two days before, a nonprofit organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), filed its own amicus brief in the O'Donnell case.

Both amici argued for reversal of U.S. District Court Judge S. James Otero of the Central District of California in the case.

Full story at NLJ.com.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on September 23, 2009 (boomark / email).