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Litigation

 

Vanzant v. Brunner

Case Information

Date Filed: September 1, 2010
State: Ohio
Issue: Absentee Ballots
Courts that Heard this Case: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (Case 1:10-cv-00596-SJD)

Issue:

Whether Ohio's method of mailing and handling absentee ballots is unconstitutional because different counties follow different rules for desseminating and receiving completed ballots.

Status:

Preliminary Pretrial Conference reset for 1/11/2011.  Preliminary Pretrial Order entered 1/11/11.  Joint Response to Order to Show Cause filed 2/4/11.  Joint Motion to Continue Trial Date filed 2/4/11. Stipulation of Dismissal filed 8/09/11.

District Court Documents

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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