On Oct. 2 the Supreme Court denied petitions for review in two cases challenging restrictions on public communications naming officeholders running for re-election. However, another case, Wisconsin Right to Life v. FEC invovles similar issues and is winding its way through the federal courts. The cases the Supreme Court declined to hear are Christian Civic League of Maine v. FEC, which challenged the federal rule banning broadcasts referring to federal candidates 60 days before an election or 30 before a primary, and Alaska Right to Life Committee v. Miles, which challenged a similar rule that applies to all public communications, but requires disclosure rather than banning the communication. In the Maine case the court said the case is moot because the legislation referred to in the ad has already been voted on. In declining to hear the Alaska case the court let stand a March ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that upheld the Alaska law.