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Exhibit 905

FEC Record: CREW v. FEC (16-2255 / 18-5136), American Action Network

Exhibit 905 ยท Agency summary of court decision

FEC Record: CREW v. FEC (16-2255 / 18-5136), American Action Network

On March 20, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia concluded that the Commission's dismissal of an administrative complaint Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed against American Action Network (AAN) was contrary to law.

District court held the FEC's dismissal of the AAN complaint contrary to law and remanded. Summary recites the Buckley 'major purpose' limit.

Source
Federal Election Commission
Date
20 March 2018 decision
Quoted from
FEC court-case page, Summary, first paragraph
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/crew-v-fec/
Accessed
2026-11-10
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding POL-5.11
Primary record The FEC ended enforcement matters against groups on both sides without finding violations. It split 3 to 3 in MUR 6396 and MUR 6696 (Crossroads GPS) and MUR 6589 (American Action Network); in MUR 7904 (Wyss, Berger Action Fund, Wyss Foundation, New Venture Fund and Sixteen Thirty Fund) it voted 6 to 0 to dismiss the political-committee allegations and split 3 to 3 and 2 to 4 on the foreign-national and name-of-another allegations.