AUGUSTA — A federal appeals court is denying a request for a new hearing in a public-disclosure case stemming from Maine’s 2009 same-sex marriage campaign.
The appeal came after a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston a month ago rejected the National Organization for Marriage’s challenge to Maine’s political action committee laws, and upheld Maine’s law requiring disclosure of independent expenditures in candidate elections.
In a decision today, the court denied NOM’s request for a rehearing.
NOM was the primary donor in 2009 to Stand for Marriage Maine, a political action committee that helped repeal Maine’s same-sex marriage law.
Other legal issues between NOM and the state of Maine, including one dealing with disclosure of donors, remain unsettled.
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