No. 24A262

Nevada Green Party v. Francisco Aguilar, Secretary of State of Nevada, et al.

Lower Court: Nevada
Docketed: 2024-09-13
Status: Denied
Type: A
Experienced Counsel
Tags: ballot-access due-process equal-protection minor-party petition-signature state-election-law
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Did the exclusion of the Nevada Green Party from the 2024 presidential ballot, for using a form that the state itself instructed the NGP to use, violate due process?

2. Did the exclusion of the NGP from the 2024 presidential ballot, for failure to include a statement that the state does not require on initiative and referenda petitions, deny equal protection to NGP where the state has no rational, much less substantial or compelling, interest for imposing that differential requirement?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the exclusion of a minor political party from a state ballot based on a petition form error caused by state officials' own instructions violates the party's federal due process and equal protection rights

Docket Entries

2024-09-20
Application (24A262) referred to the Court.
2024-09-20
Application (24A262) to vacate injunction presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied.
2024-09-18
Reply of Nevada Green Party in support of application submitted.
2024-09-18
Reply of applicant Nevada Green Party filed.
2024-09-17
Response to application from respondent Francisco Aguilar, et al. filed.
2024-09-17
Response to application from respondent Nevada State Democratic Party filed.
2024-09-13
Application (24A262) to vacate injunction, submitted to Justice Kagan.
2024-09-13
Response to application (24A262) requested by Justice Kagan, due by 4 p.m. (EDT) on September 17, 2024.

Attorneys

Francisco Aguilar, et al.
Heidi Jill Parry SternOffice of the Nevada Attorney General, Respondent
Nevada Green Party
Jay Alan SekulowAmerican Center for Law and Justice, Petitioner
Nevada State Democratic Party
Philip A. IrwinCovington & Burling LLP, Respondent