Full Ninth Circuit Backs California City’s Campaign Finance Caps

An en banc Ninth Circuit held a California city’s law limiting campaign finance contributions is constitutional on Wednesday, reversing course after a three-judge panel struck the law down in 2024.

Oxnard, Calif.'s “Measure B,” which limits, among other things, individual contributions to city council candidates to $500 per election and citywide office candidates to $750, doesn’t violate the First and Fourteenth amendments, Judge Lucy H. Koh said in a majority opinion. Nine of the 11 judges sitting en banc for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit voted to affirm a district court’s grant of summary judgment ...