United States District Court

Eastern District of Virginia

Richmond Division

The Real Truth About Obama, Inc.

Plaintiff,

v.

Federal Election Commission and

United States Department of Justice,

Defendants.

Case No. 3:08-cv-00483-JRS

Preliminary Injunction and

Summary Judgment Motion

The Real Truth About Obama, Inc. (“RTAO”) moves for a preliminary injunction against

Defendants to enjoin them from enforcing (a) 11 C.F.R. § 100.22(b) (“expressly advocating”)

and (b) the FEC’s PAC-status enforcement policy, including the major-purpose test. RTAO respectfully asserts that this Court should expressly recognize the special protections for free

speech in the preliminary-injunction context and apply them to grant RTAO’s preliminary injunction motion.

RTAO also moves for summary judgment as to both 11 C.F.R. § 100.22(b) and the

FEC’s PAC-status enforcement policy, but it does so to accommodate opposing counsel, expedite case resolution, and conserve resources for Court and parties. Because the questions are legal

and there are no genuine disputes as to material facts, the Court should resolve the merits of the

case on summary judgment. But the preliminary injunction motion should not be postponed and

denied as moot after summary judgment is decided. Concurrently with this motion, RTAO will

file a motion requesting that the hearing for this motion be combined with the hearing on DefenPreliminary Injunction and

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dants’ motion for summary judgment. 

RTAO respectfully moves that a preliminary injunction should issue and that summary

judgment be entered in its favor. RTAO requests that no security should be required, or it should

be nominal, since Defendants have no monetary stake. 

James Bopp, Jr.,* jboppjr@aol.com

Richard E. Coleson,*

rcoleson@bopplaw.com

Barry A. Bostrom,*

bbostrom@bopplaw.com

Kaylan Phillips,** kphillips@bopplaw.com

BOPP, COLESON & BOSTROM

1 South Sixth Street

Terre Haute, IN 47807-3510

812/232-2434 telephone

812/234-3685 facsimile

 *admitted pro hac vice

 **pro hac vice application pending

Lead Counsel for Plaintiff

Respectfully submitted,

 /s/ 

Michael Boos (VA State Bar No. 37524)

Law Office of Michael Boos

4101 Chain Bridge Road, Suite 313

Fairfax, VA 22030

703/691-7717 telephone

703/691-7543 facsimile

michael.boos@gte.net

Local Counsel for Plaintiff

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Certificate of Service

I hereby certify that on September 20, 2010, I served upon the below listed persons copies

of this document by electronically filing this document for electronic transmission.

John Richard Griffiths

U.S. Department of Justice

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch

P.O. Box 883

Washington, DC 20044

john.griffiths@usdoj.gov

Debra Jean Prillaman

Office of U.S. Attorney

600 East Main Street, Suite 1800

Richmond, VA 23219

debra.prillaman@usdoj.gov

J. Gerald Hebert 

J. Gerald Hebert, P.C. 

5019 Waple Ln 

Alexandria, VA 22304 

ghebert@campaignlegalcenter.org

Thomasenia P. Duncan

tduncan@fec.gov

Audra Anne Hale-Maddox

ahale-maddox@fec.gov

David Kolkler. dkokler@fec.gov

Kevin Deeley, kdeeley@fec.gov

Holly Baker, hbaker@fec.gov

Vivien Clair, vclair@fec.gov

Seth Nesin, snesin@fec.gov

Adav Noti, anoti@fec.gov

Claire Rajan, crajan@fec.gov

Federal Election Commission

999 E Street NW

Washington, DC 20463

And I hereby certify that I will mail the document by U.S. mail to the following non-filing users:

Daniel R. Ortiz 

John Allan Love Professor of Law 

University of Virginia School of Law 

580 Massie Road 

Charlottesville, VA 22903-1738 

Jonathan Lee Riches

F.C.I. Williamsburg

P.O. Box 340

Salters, SC 29590

Richard Briffault 

Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of 

 Legislation 

Columbia University School of Law 

435 West 116th Street 

New York, NY 10027 

 /s/ 

Michael Boos (VA State Bar No. 37524)

Law Office of Michael Boos

4101 Chain Bridge Road, Suite 313

Fairfax, VA 22030

703/691-7717 telephone

703/691-7543 facsimile

michael.boos@gte.net

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