| Subject: more news |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 10/27/2004, 6:19 PM |
| To: election-law |
A
judge in Cleveland denied a TRO to stop the GOP voter registration
challenges there, but a judge in Cincinnati has granted such a TRO,
pending a hearing on the preliminary injunction Friday. Dan Tokaji has
the details here.
According to this
press release issued by the judge in Cincinnati, the order applies
to a numbrer of counties, including Cuyahoga (the county including
Cleveland).
The Rocky Mountain News offers this
report about a recently released 83-page election manual in
Colorado.
The
New York County Lawyers Association Inn of Court presents Bush v. Gore
Was Justice John Paul Stevens correct in identifying the real loser of
the case as "the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial
guardian of the rule of law," or did the Court properly intervene and
redress a risk to the full and effective participation in the voting
process?
Thursday, October 28, 2004
6:00 p.m.
The Ceremonial Courtroom
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse
500 Pearl Street
withh speakers
George Terwilliger, III, Esq., former Deputy United States Attorney
General (1991-92), partner at White & Case and member of George W.
Bush's legal team
Floyd Abrams, Esq., co-counsel to the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case, partner at Cahill, Gordon & Reindel and Columbia Law School professor
Moderated by Adam Liptak, Esq., National Legal Correspondent of the
New York Times
A federal district court, Eastern District of California, issued a preliminary injunction against the California Fair Political Practices Commission today, in a lawsuit (and PI application) filed by the California Republican Party, the California Democratic Party and the Orange County Republican Party, which enjoins the FPPC from enforcing the advertising disclosure provisions of CA Government Code sections 84503 and 84506 that require “major funding disclosure” of the top two donors to these general purpose committees on the advertising publications themselves. The scanned opinion is too large for me to post.
A federal district court in Missouri has upheld a decision to deny a mentally incapacitated person the right to vote. The opinion is here and AP is here.
A federal court is hearing arguments today on whether the
controversial immigration initiative in Arizona, Prop. 200, should be
removed from the ballot because of petition problems. See this
report.
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