The Cartesian Company, Inc. and Greg Gachassin v. the Division of Administrative Law Ethics Adjudicatory Board Panel…

Summary

The court held that the phrase “in any way interested in” in the state ethics statute is not facially overbroad because the challenge does not implicate First Amendment-protected conduct. It nevertheless held that the phrase is unconstitutionally vague as applied to the plaintiffs and facially vague in all applications because it provides no sufficiently definite standard of prohibited conduct. The court struck that phrase while preserving the remainder of the statute and otherwise upheld the plaintiffs’ summary judgment. No separate opinions were included in the record provided.