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Litigation

Alaska Democratic Party v. Fenumiai, et al.

Case Information

Date Filed: October 25, 2010
State: Alaska
Issues: Election 2010, Polling Place Challenges
Courts that Heard this Case: Superior Court for the State of Alaska, Third Judicial District (Case 3AN-10-11621CI); Supreme Court of the State of Alaska (Case S-14054)

Issue:

Whether Alaska's Division of Elections can display, distribute or communicate write-in candidate lists at polling locations.

Status:

Stay of Trial Court Order entered 10/27/10.

Trial Court Documents

  • Complaint for Injunctive Relief (filed 10/25/10)
  • Plaintiff's Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction and Memorandum in Support (filed 10/25/10)
  • Defendant's Opposition to Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction (filed 10/26/10)
  • Defendant's Citation of Supplemental Authority (filed 10/26/10)
  • Alaska Republican Party's Reply to State/Murkowski Briefing (filed 10/26/10)
  • Decision and Order PDF (entered 10/27/10)

Appellate Court Documents

  • Notice of Appeal (filed 10/27/10)
  • Order granting stay of Trial Court order PDF (entered 10/27/10)

Commentary

Edward B. Foley

Gerrymandering as Viewpoint Discrimination: A "Functional Equivalence" Test

Edward B. Foley

A First Amendment test for identifying when a map is functionally equivalent to a facially discriminatory statute.

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In the News

Daniel P. Tokaji

This is why US election ballots routinely go missing

Professor Dan Tokaji was quoted in USA Today about the prevalence of missing election ballots.

 

"Most of the time, it just goes unreported because it doesn't affect the result," Tokaji said. 


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Info & Analysis

Supreme Court Finds Partisan Gerrymandering Claims to be Non-Justiciable Political Questions

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion on Thursday determining that claims of partisan gerrymandering are political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts. The opinion resolved disputes originating in North Carolina and Maryland, in the cases of Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek.

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