United States Tenth Circuit

Grant of declaratory and injunctive relief from a city amendment requiring voters in municipal elections to present photo identification at polling locations is reversed where a photo identification law is a valid method of preventing voter fraud.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/17/2008
• Published 11/18/2008

Judges

• KELLY, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, BALDOCK, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sidney S. Rosdeitcher and J. Adam Skaggs of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, L.L.P., New York, New York, Wendy R. Weiser and Justin Levitt of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, John W. Boyd of Freedman, Boyd, Daniels, Hollander, Goldberg & Ives, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Garcia, Assistant City Attorney (Robert M. White, City Attorney, Robert D. Kidd, Paula I. Forney, and Mark Shoesmith, Assistant City Attorneys of City of Albuquerque, with him on the briefs), Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant-Appellant., Charles K. Purcell (Andrew G. Schultz of Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A., and George Bach of American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, with him on the briefs), Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.