context: Indeed, as counsel conceded at oral argument, Appellees have taken an oath to enforce Minnesota law. Appellants "are thus not without some reason in fearing prosecution" should they make the political expenditures that they propose.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 99 F.3d 8, 12-15
citation_a.parenthetical: determining that political action committee had standing to challenge New Hampshire campaign finance limits even though New Hampshire's Attorney General had informed plaintiff that the state would not enforce the law
citation_a.sentence: Babbitt, 442 U.S. at 302, 99 S.Ct. 2301 (holding that fear of prosecution was not imaginary or speculative, even though the challenged criminal penalty provision had never been applied to plaintiffs’ proposed conduct, where statute on its face proscribed the proposed conduct and where “the State has not disavowed any intention of invoking the criminal penalty provision”); see also Butler, 146 F.3d at 560 (holding that plaintiffs had standing to challenge the constitutionality of various provisions in Arkansas’s campaign finance law even though plaintiffs had neither violated the law nor been directly threatened with prosecution under the law); N.H. Right to Life Political Action Comm. v. Gardner, 99 F.3d 8, 12-15 (1st Cir.1996) (determining that political action committee had standing to challenge New Hampshire campaign finance limits even though New Hampshire’s Attorney General had informed plaintiff that the state would not enforce the law).
citation_b.signal: no signal
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that fear of prosecution was not imaginary or speculative, even though the challenged criminal penalty provision had never been applied to plaintiffs' proposed conduct, where statute on its face proscribed the proposed conduct and where "the State has not disavowed any intention of invoking the criminal penalty provision"
citation_b.sentence: Babbitt, 442 U.S. at 302, 99 S.Ct. 2301 (holding that fear of prosecution was not imaginary or speculative, even though the challenged criminal penalty provision had never been applied to plaintiffs’ proposed conduct, where statute on its face proscribed the proposed conduct and where “the State has not disavowed any intention of invoking the criminal penalty provision”); see also Butler, 146 F.3d at 560 (holding that plaintiffs had standing to challenge the constitutionality of various provisions in Arkansas’s campaign finance law even though plaintiffs had neither violated the law nor been directly threatened with prosecution under the law); N.H. Right to Life Political Action Comm. v. Gardner, 99 F.3d 8, 12-15 (1st Cir.1996) (determining that political action committee had standing to challenge New Hampshire campaign finance limits even though New Hampshire’s Attorney General had informed plaintiff that the state would not enforce the law).