United States Eleventh Circuit

Plaintiffs seeking to enjoin hand recount of presidential election ballots not entitled to preliminary injunction because possibility that election certification will be reversed is too speculative to show a substantial likelihood of irreparable injury.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/06/2000
• Published 12/06/2000

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT, EDMONDSON, COX, BIRCH, DUBINA, BLACK, CARNES, BARKETT, HULL, MARCUS and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marcos D. Jimenez, White & Case, LLP, Miami, FL, Theodore B. Olson, Thomas G. Hungar, Daniel W. Nelson, Douglas R. Cox, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Charles B. Campbell, Montgomery, AL, for Amicus Curiae State of Alabama, Attorney General of Alabama and Secretary of State of Alabama., Charles Melvin Fahlbusch, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Scott Lee Rouse, Montgomery, AL, for Amicus Curiae Atty. Gen. of Florida., Mark Aloysius Cullen, The Szymoniak Firm, P.A., Boca Raton, FL, for Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Beverly A. Pohl, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Samuel S. Goren, Josias, Goren, Cherof, Doody & Ezrol, PA, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Lee Alan Kraftchick, Miami, FL, L. Roland Blossom, DeLand, FL, Charles Box Jones, III, Atlanta, GA, Mark A. Cullen, The Szymoniak Firm, P.A., Boca Raton, FL, David Isaac Adelman, Teresa Wynn Roseborough, John H. Fleming, Carey P. DeDeyn, James A. Orr, Allegra J. Lawrence, C. Francis Whitaker, III, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Andrew Jeffrey Meyers, Fla. Dept. of Labor & Employment Sec., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Daniel D. Eckert, Tura Schnebly, Volusia Cty. Legal Dept., Frank B. Gummey, III, DeLand, FL, Bruce Rogow, Bruce S. Rogow, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.