Restraining order against Ohio GOP voter registration challenges [US DC]
Miller et al. v. Blackwell et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Judge Susan J. Dlott, October 27, 2004 [preventing elections boards in six Ohio counties from hearing challenges filed by the Ohio Republican Party...
Prye v. Blunt, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Judge Otrie D. Smith, October 26, 2004 . Excerpt:Missouri is denying Prye the...
Assemblyman Reed Gusciora et. al. v. McGreevey et al., Superior Court of New Jersey, Judge Linda Feinberg, October 26, 2004 [ruling that the state's voters will be able to cast their ballots in next Tuesday's election using electronic voting machines,...
Diaz v. Hood, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge James L. King, October 26, 2004 [ruling that county election supervisors had acted legally in denying voter applications that were incomplete at the Oct. 4 registration...
Sandusky County Democratic Party et al. v. J. Kenneth Blackwell, Per Curiam, October 26 [holding that Ohio voters who use provisional ballots must cast those ballots in their own precincts, overruling a contrary lower-court decision that would have counted them...
William G. Ross, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University: "Chief Justice Rehnquist's hospitalization for thyroid cancer treatment has provided a sudden and poignant reminder to many voters that the winning candidate in next Tuesday's election is likely to make US...
O'Kelley et al. v. Cox, Georgia Supreme Court, October 26, 2004 [ruling that the courts could not intervene in the referendum process and that the parties challenging the inclusion of the proposed amendment banning same-sex marriage on the November 2...
Wexler et al. v. LaPore et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge James I. Cohn, October 25, 2004 [ruling that Florida does not have to create a paper record in the case of recounts...
Blackenship et al. v. Blackwell, Secy. of State, et al., Ohio Supreme Court, October 22, 2004 [rejecting the Nader campaign's petition to have the state election board review voter registration lists to validate election petitions to put Nader on the...
Why the Supreme Court is Not an Election Issue, and Why It Should Become One
JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross of Cumberland Law School at Samford University says that although the US Supreme Court has not been a significant issue thusfar in the current Presidential campaign, the likelihood of Presidential appointments to the Court...
