WOLFSON v. BRAMMER

No. 09-15298.

616 F.3d 1045 (2010)

Randolph WOLFSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. J. William BRAMMER, Jr.; John C. Gemmill; Angela H. Sifuentes; Robert M. Brutinel, Judge; Sylvia Patino-Branfon; Harriett Chavez; Shelia S. Polk; Louis Frank Dominguez; Sherry L. Geisler; Catherine M. Stewart; Marion Weinzweig; J. Conrad Baran; Daisy R. Flores; Jeff Messing; John Pressley Todd; William W. Horsley; Laura Bellau; Pamela M. Katzenberg; Timothy Gooding; Karen Osborne; Robert B. Van Wyck, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 13, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Bopp, Jr., Esq. , Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terra Haute, IN, for plaintiff-appellant Randolph Wolfson.

Kimberly A. Demarchi, Esq. , Lewis and Roca LLP, Phoenix, AZ, for defendant-appellee Robert Van Wyck , Chief Bar Counsel of the State Bar of Arizona.

Charles A. Grube, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Arizona Attorney General, Phoenix, AZ, for defendants-appellees J. William Brammer, Jr., John C. Gemmill, Angela H. Sifuentes, Robert M. Brutinel, Sylvia Patino-Branfon, Harriett Chavez, Shelia S. Polk, Louis Frank Dominguez, J. Conrad Baran, Daisy R. Flores, Jeff Messing, John Pressley Todd, William W. Horsley, Laura Bellau, Pamela M. Katzenberg, Timothy Gooding, and Karen Osborne.

Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge GRABER.


OPINION

WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:

While a candidate for judicial office in Arizona, appellant Randolph Wolfson initiated this action against the members of the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct, the members of the Arizona Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission, and Arizona Chief Bar Counsel Robert Van Wyck (collectively, defendants) challenging several canons of the Arizona Code of Judicial Conduct (Code) that restricted his political speech and...

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