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Foley' width='65' height='90' class='align_left'><h3><a href='http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/index.php?ID=13455'>Gerrymandering as Viewpoint Discrimination: A "Functional Equivalence" Test</a></h3><p><strong>Edward B. Foley</strong></p><p>A First Amendment test for identifying when a map is functionally equivalent to a facially discriminatory statute.</p> <p class="more"><a href="http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/index.php">more commentary...</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tabbertab"> <div class="tab-news"> <h2>In the News</h2> <div class="box-content"> <img src="http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/images/profiles/hs/tokaji_daniel.jpg" alt="Daniel P. Tokaji" width="65" height="90" class="align_left"> <h3> <a href='https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/08/09/ohio-special-election-missing-ballots-accident/945128002/'><strong>This is why US election ballots routinely go missing</strong></a> </h3> <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none">Professor Dan Tokaji was quoted in <em>USA Today</em> about the prevalence of missing election ballots.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none">"Most of the time, it just goes unreported because it doesn't affect the result," Tokaji said. </span></p> <div><span style="font-kerning: none"><br /> </span></div><p class="more"><a href="http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/faculty/news.php">more EL@M in the news...</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tabbertab"> <div class="tab-info"> <h2>Info & Analysis</h2> <div class="box-content"> <h3 style='color: #000000'>Supreme Court Finds Partisan Gerrymandering Claims to be Non-Justiciable Political Questions</h3><p>In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an <a href=\"../../electionlaw/litigation/documents/Robert_A._Rucho30.pdf\">opinion</a> on Thursday determining that claims of partisan gerrymandering are political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts. 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Vos</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/GallaghervNYBrdofElections.php'>Gallagher v. New York State Board of Elections</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/GaryvVADeptofElections.php'>Gary v. Virginia Department of Elections</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Gear.php'>Gear v. Knudson </a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/GeorgiaKemp.php'>Georgia Coalition for the Peoples' Agenda v. Raffensperger</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Gilby.php'>Gilby v. Hughs</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Gloria.php'>Gloria v. Hughs </a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Hoffard.php'>Hoffard v. Cochise </a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Jacobson.php'>Jacobson v. Lee </a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Jones.php'>Jones v. DeSantis </a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/JudicialWatch.php'>Judicial Watch v. Pennsylvania</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/LWVOvBenson.php'>League of Women Voters of Michigan v. Benson</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/LWVOhiovLaRose.php'>League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/LWVPAvBoockvar.php'>League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/LWVV.php'>League of Women Voters of Virginia v. Virginia State Board of Elections </a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Lewis.php'>Lewis v. Hughs</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Frank.v.Walker.php'>Luft v. Evers</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Mecinas.php'>Mecinas v. Hobbs</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/NewGeorgiaProject.php'>New Georgia Project v. Raffensperger </a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Nielsen.php'>Nielsen v. DeSantis</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/PFOA.php'>People First of Alabama v. Merrill </a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Nessel.php'>Priorities USA v. Nessel </a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/SPS.php'>S.P.S. ex rel. Short v. Raffensperger </a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Stringer.php'>Stringer v. Cascos </a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Swenson.php'>Swenson v. Bostelmann</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Abott.php'>Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Hughs.php'>Texas Democratic Party v. Hughs</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/AFG.php'>The Andrew Goodman Foundation v. Bostelmann</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/ThompsonDewine.php'>Thompson v. DeWine</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/TrumpBoockvar.php'>Trump v. Boockvar </a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/trumpvcegavske.php'>Trump v. Cegavske</a></li><li><a href='/electionlaw/litigation/Votolatino.php'>Voto Latino Inc. v. 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