political-parties

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A576 Indiana Green Party, et al. v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State Seventh Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties signature-requirements Question not identified.
24A525 Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete ballot-access constitutional-burden election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties Question not identified.
23-696 Colorado Republican State Central Committee v. Norma Anderson, et al. Colorado 2023-12-28 Dismissed Amici (3)Response Waived 14th-amendment disqualification-clause due-process election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection political-parties presidential-eligibility section-3 state-authority The Supreme Court of Colorado held that states possess authority, regardless of the lack of congressional authorization, to determine that a president…
23-439 Jim Boydston, et al. v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. California 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment party-nomination political-association political-parties primary-election state-elections voter-participation 1. Where, under State law, the selection of a political party's presidential nominee is governed by internal party rules and procedures and not by the…
22-893 Libertarian Party of New York, et al. v. New York State Board of Elections, et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Amici (1) anderson-burdick-test ballot-access election-law equal-protection first-amendment minor-parties political-parties signature-requirements 1. Did the courts below properly apply the Anderson-Burdick standard as a "two-tracked approach" rather than as "a sliding-scale balancing analysis" w…
22-420 In Re Ohio, ex rel. Terpsehore P. Maras 2022-11-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge election-law election-observers equal-protection fundamental-right-to-vote independent-candidates party-representation political-parties strict-scrutiny voting-rights The question presented is whether Ohio law allowing for Republican and Democratic Parties' election observers in any Ohio precinct or board of electio…
21-1288 Libertarian Party of Alabama v. John Harold Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties voter-registration Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution for a State to discriminate against minor political parties by p…
21-834 Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Eighth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party Whether a government during the election process, without violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments, can threaten criminal prosecution against vot…
21-226 Libertarian Party of Ohio, et al. v. Don Michael Crites, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Amici (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights election-law first-amendment political-parties public-office standing state-restriction Whether a state violates the First Amendment by barring members of small political parties from holding a public office.
20-1100 Paul Rodriguez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) electoral-college equal-protection first-amendment political-parties presidential-election summary-affirmance vote-dilution voting-rights Petitioners are two California Republicans and two non-profit organizations who have alleged their votes for President and Vice President are diluted …
20-612 Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Minnesota 2020-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ballot-access equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties political-party-rights primary-election primary-elections In the context of Minnesota's taxpayer-funded, state-administered, and binding presidential nomination primary election, are Minnesota Statues repugna…
20-463 Robert A. Heghmann v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response Waived candidate-rights civil-rights congressional-elections congressional-primaries democratic-party election-law political-parties racial-discrimination standing voter-standing voting-rights Does a voter have standing to challenge racial discrimination by the Democratic Party in Congressional Primary Elections based upon the challenged dis…
19-1294 Geoffrey Young v. Amy McGrath Kentucky 2020-05-15 Denied Response Waived ballot-access ballot-challenge civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation democratic-party due-process election-integrity election-law judicial-procedure kentucky-constitution political-parties primary-election standing 1) Whether Kentucky's Judicial Department unlawfully enabled the names of Amy McGrath and Andy Beshear, who were shown by a preponderance of the evide…
19-757 Arizona Libertarian Party, et al. v. Katie Hobbs, Arizona Secretary of State Ninth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) ballot-access ballot-qualified-party candidate-qualification constitutional-threshold election-law independent-voters political-parties primary-election voter-eligibility voter-support 1. May a state require that a candidate seeking to run in the primary election of a ballot-qualified party demonstrate support from as much as 30 perc…
19-234 Libertarian National Committee, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2019-08-22 Denied Amici (3) campaign-finance content-based-restrictions deceased-donor federal-election-commission first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech political-contributions political-parties testamentary-bequest testamentary-bequests 1. In the asserted interest of preventing quid pro quo corruption, the Federal Election Commission limits the amount of money that a political party m…
18-718 Geoffrey M. Young v. Sannie L. Overly, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-fraud immunity judicial-review party-accountability political-parties standing statutory-interpretation If the decision in Rosenberg v. Republican Party of Jefferson County, 270 S.W2d 171 (Ky. 1954) is not overturned, will the Republican and Democratic P…
18-450 Utah Republican Party v. Spencer J. Cox, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) candidate-selection expressive-association first-amendment political-parties political-party standard-bearer state-regulation viewpoint-discrimination As a private expressive association, "[a] political party" enjoys a general First Amendment right "to choose a candidate-selection process that will i…
18-149 Doug Lair, et al. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Political Practices, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) campaign-finance campaign-finance-regulation civil-rights constitutional-rights contribution-limits election-law first-amendment free-speech political-contributions political-parties political-speech quid-pro-quo-corruption randall-v-sorrell standing 1. Whether Montana's base candidate contribution limits on individual and political committees are unconstitutional under the First Amendment. 2. Whe…