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Libertarian Party v. Hazeltine

3:00-cv-03021 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: May 4, 2000

Closed Date: 2000

On May 4, 2000, the Libertarian Party of South Dakota and several concerned citizens filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. The plaintiffs sued South Dakota, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, they asked the court for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the State misinterpreted state election law when it denied Libertarian Party candidate Brian Lerohl’s request to be added to the primary election ballot. Specificall…
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Libertarian Party of North Dakota v. Jaeger

3:10-cv-00064 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: July 16, 2010

On July 16, 2010, the Libertarian Party of North Dakota and three LPND candidates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota against the state of North Dakota, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. They sought a declaratory judgment, alleging that their exclusion from the general ballot after failing to gain a state-imposed threshold number of votes in the primary election violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. On September 3, 2010, the District Court (J…
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United States v. Alabama

60-cv-00479 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1960

Closed Date: 1961

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. In 1960, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the State of Alabama and registrars from Macon County, AL, under the Civil Rights Act. The DOJ argued that racial discrimination had deprived Macon County's black citizens of the right to vote, and it sought preventative relief under §1971 (later transferred to 52 U.S.C.A. § 10101) in t…
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United States v. Wilder

Civ. A. No. 8695 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 1962

Closed Date: Oct. 23, 1963

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Cooper v. Raffensperger

1:20-cv-01312 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 26, 2020

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for more current information, see their tracker. The two plaintiffs in this case, the Green Party and Libertarian Party nominees for seats in the Georgia State House of Representatives, filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on March 26, 2020. Their complaint alleged that Georgia state laws requiring extensive collection of signatures to get on the b…
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Libertarian Party of Illinois v. Pritzker

1:20-cv-02112 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: July 8, 2021

This case was about Illinois election law (candidate nomination and signature gathering procedures) during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 election. The Libertarian Party of Illinois, the Green Party of Illinois, and several independent candidates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on April 2, 2020. Defendants were various members of the Illinois State Board of Elections. Plaintiffs challenged signature-gathering requirements for ballot qualification duri…
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Goldstein v. Galvin

SJC-12931 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: April 9, 2020

Closed Date: April 17, 2020

On April 9, 2020, candidates for the US Senate, the US Congress, and state government filed this emergency petition for relief on behalf of themselves on others similarly situated in the Massachusetts Supreme Court. The plaintiffs sued the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, alleging that the in-person signature requirements violated the Article 9 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights and the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution. The plaintiffs, represented by pr…
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Esshaki v. Whitmer

2:20-cv-10831 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 31, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 2, 2020

On March 31, 2020, a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in Michigan's 11th District filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiff sued the Governor, Secretary of State, and other state officials for an injunction barring the defendants from enforcing the April 21 deadline for candidates to submit a certain number of signatures in order to have their names placed on the ballot. The case was assigned to Judge Terrence G. …
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Faulkner v. Virginia Department of Elections

20-1456 | Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: March 23, 2020

On March 23, Omari Faulkner, a Republican running for the U.S. Senate and his campaign committee filed this lawsuit in Virginia state court. Represented by private attorneys, the plaintiffs sued the Virginia Department of Elections, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and the Republican Party of Virginia, seeking to enjoin the defendants from enforcing the candidate signature requirement for the U.S. Senate candidates. The normal requirement for a candidate to qualify for the primary ballot …
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Warren v. Griswold

20CV31077 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: March 17, 2020

On March 17, Michelle Ferrigno Warren, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, filed an action against the Colorado Secretary of State in the Denver District Court, seeking a court order to put her name on the primary ballot. She argued that COVID-19, and the resulting state of emergency, prevented her from collecting the required 1500 signatures before the deadline of March 7. The plaintiff had collected 5383 signatures of the 10,500 required and had only collected enough signatures in one…