On May 20, the 9th circuit issued an opinion in McComish v Bennett, upholding the Arizona Public Funding law for state candidates. The U.S. District Court had invalidated it on January 21, 2010.

The decision says that the part of the law that had been challenged, the provision for extra public funding for publicly-funded candidates who have big-spending private money opponents, is valid. The vote is 3-0. The decision is 30 pages and Judge Andrew Kleinfeld has an interesting 4-page concurrence.