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Case 6:12-cv-00012-CCL Document 168 Filed 10/10/12 Page <strong>38</strong> of <strong>38</strong><br />

advocacy." Randall, 548 U.S. at 249 (citations and internal quotation marks<br />

omitted). They are therefore unconstitutionaL<br />

The 2013 Legislature will convene in less than three months, and it will<br />

probably consider whether to address the other statutes that the Court has already<br />

declared unconstitutional and for which the appeals have been dismissed. With<br />

entry ofthis order, the Legislature will have a clean canvas upon which to paint,<br />

should it choose to do so.<br />

IT IS ORDERED that the Court's order declaring the contribution limits in<br />

Montana Code Annotated § 13-37-216 unconstitutional and permanently<br />

enjoining the defendants from enforcing those limits is hereby confirmed subject<br />

however to the Circuit's temporary stay order received only minutes ago.<br />

Dated this d4y ofOctober 2012.<br />

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