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Lacorte v. Cytryn

Elections
The Appellate Division properly determined that the validating petition did not sufficiently specify which determinations of the County Board of...

Hoerger v. Spota

Elections, Government Law
Suffolk County is without the power to regulate the number of terms the district attorney may serve, and therefore the order finding the candidate's...

Mission Springs Water District v. Verjil

Elections, Government Law, Water Law
In an action challenging initiatives that proposed rolling back increases in plaintiff's water and sewer rates, the trial court's denial of...

Renewable Resources Coalition, Inc. v. Pebble Mines Corporation

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Elections
In an action in which plaintiff alleged that defendant knowingly purchased the plaintiff's confidential documents from its former fundraiser, the...

Brooktrails Township Community Services District v. Board of Supervisors of Mendocino County

Elections, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
In a challenge to the passage of a local initiative that ended the practice of requiring property owners to pay for sewer and water connections even...

Townley v. Miller

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections
The district court's preliminary injunction an action challenging the legal effect section of a Nevada election law, which allows voters the ability...

Chamness v. Maldonado

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Elections
The district court's order granting defendants summary judgment and denying a motion to intervene in this action challenging the constitutionality of...

Shelby County v. Holder

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which provides the "coverage formula," defining the "covered jurisdictions" as States or political subdivisions...

Sanders County Republican Central Committee v. Fox

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Elections, Government Law, Judges & Judiciary
The district court's permanent injunction enjoining defendants, Montana's Attorney General and Commissioner of Political Practices, from enforcing in...

Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Ariz., Inc.

Constitutional Law, Elections, Indian Law
Arizona's evidence-of-citizenship requirement, as applied to Federal Form applicants, is pre-empted by the National Voter Registration Act' mandate...