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

• ORDER:, 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:
  
• James Bopp, Jr.,Bopp, Coleson & Bostram, Terre Haute, IN, for Robert C. Touchston, Deborah Shepperd and Diana L. Touchston., Theodore B. Olson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Washington, DC, for Ned L. Siegel., Daniel D. Eckert, Volusia County Legal Dept., DeLand, FL, for Michael McDermott and Ann McFall., Andrew James McMahon, West Palm Beach, FL, for Theresa Lepore and Charles E. Burton., John W. Little, III, Steel Hector & Davis, West Palm Beach, FL, for Carol Roberts, Katherine Harris and Bob Crawford., Lee Alan Kraftchick, Miami, FL, for David Leahy, Lawrence King, Jr. and Miriam Lehr., John Brian Murray, Jr., Steel Hector & Davis, LLP, West Palm Beach, FL, for Clay Roberts., L. Roland Blossom, Frank B. Gummey, III, Tura Schnebly, Volusia County Legal Dept., DeLand, FL, Leonard Berger, West Palm Beach, FL, Joseph P. Klock, Jr., Christopher Duke, John B.T. Murray, Jr., Steel Hector & Davis, LLP, West Palm Beach, FL, Bruce Rogow, Beverly A. Pohl, Bruce S. Rogow, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, John H. Fleming, James A. Orr, Allegra J. Lawrence, Carey P. DeDeyn, C. Francis Whitaker, III, Charles B. Jones, III, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for George W. Bush., Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta GA, for State Attorneys General, Amicus Curiae and Florida Democratic Party, Intervenor.