Bloomberg BNA:

The Supreme Court declined to review a challenge to Federal Election Commission contribution limits for traditional political action committees (PACs), leaving intact special limits for newly formed PACs (Stop Reckless Economic Instability Caused By Democrats (Stop REID) PAC v. FEC, U.S., No. 16-109, cert. denied 10/31/16).

The FEC limits were challenged in a case spearheaded by a PAC called Stop Reckless Economic Instability Caused By Democrats (Stop REID). A petition for certiorari filed with the high court last summer was denied Oct. 31.

A federal appeals court decision earlier this year upheld the FEC’s PAC contribution limits. In February, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit handed down an opinion rejecting the challenge brought by Stop REID and a number of conservative PACs and Republican Party committees.