Many of you surely read Rick Hasen's excellent
election law blog, and will have noticed his September
20 entry about Fulani v McAuliffe.  Although I agree
that this Fulani lawsuit lacked merit, the opinion's
opening sentence, and its footnote one, are most
misleading.  The opening sentence is "This is yet
another in a long line of cases in which Lenora Fulani
has misused the courts in an attempt to pursue a
political agenda which she is not able to accomplish
at the ballot box."

Footnote one of the decision says "a sampling of the
at least 35 published cases of this ilk..." and
mentions eleven election law cases that Fulani lost. 
However, Fulani and the New Alliance Party (which
nominated her for president in 1988 and 1992) have won
7 significant ballot access lawsuits, which I list at
www.ballot-access.org.  To read Judge Preska's
opinion, one would think she never won any cases.


		
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