Prete v. Bradbury

438 F.3d 949 Barbara PRETE; Eugene Prete, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Jason Donnell Williams, Plaintiff, v. Bill BRADBURY, Secretary of State of Oregon, Defendant-Appellee, Oregon AFL-CIO; Timothy J. Nesbitt, Esq., Defendant-Intervenors-Appellees. No. 04-35285. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted September 12, 2005. Filed February 22, 2006. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Ross A. Day, Tigard, OR, for the appellant. David E. Leith, Office of the Oregon Attorney General, Salem, OR, for the appellees. Margaret S. Olney, Portland, OR, for the intervenor-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, Ann L. Aiken, District Judge, Presiding, D.C. No. CV-03-06357-ALA. Before RAYMOND C. FISHER, RONALD M. GOULD, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges. BEA, Circuit Judge. 1 We are called upon to decide whether Oregon Ballot Measure 26's prohibition of payment to electoral petition signature gatherers on a piece-work or per signature basis unconstitutionally burdens core political speech. Because the district court did not clearly err in determining that the plaintiffs failed to establish that the challenged measure significantly…