SACRAMENTO — California’s fledgling regulations requiring electioneering nonprofits to identify their donors will undergo their first legal test next week when an Arizona group asks a Sacramento trial court to keep their contributors’ names private.

The Fair Political Practices Commission on Thursday filed for a preliminary injunction in Sacramento County Superior Court, seeking to audit Americans for Responsible Leadership. Earlier this month the Arizona-based nonprofit threw $11 million into a California campaign to defeat Proposition 30, the governor’s tax measure, and to pass Proposition 32, a corporate-backed measure to curb union funding.

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