Scully

ORDER

This is an appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction enjoining the enforcement of Proposition 208, a California campaign finance’ initiative adopted by the voters in 1996. When reviewing the grant of a preliminary injunction, our inquiry is narrow. See Gregorio T. v. Wilson, 59 F.3d 1002 , 1004 (9th Cir.1995)(quoting Sports Form, Inc. v. United Press International, 686 F.2d 750 (9th Cir.1982)). We determine only whether the district court employed the “appropriate legal standards which govern the issuance of a preliminary injunction,” and whether the district court correctly “[ jappre-hended the law with respect to the underlying issues in litigation.” Id. We do not, however, decide whether the application of the legal principles was or was not erroneous. Accordingly, whether or not we “would have arrived at a different result if [we] had applied the law to the facts of the case” is irrelevant at this stage of the proceedings. Id. In short, we do not decide whether the ■ result reached by the district judge was correct.

Here, we have no doubt that the district court employed the appropriate legal standards governing the issuance of the preliminary injunction, and…