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MONTGOMERY COUNTY v. MICROVOTE CORP.

Civil Procedure, Elections, Remedies
The District Court did not err in denying plaintiff's motion for judgment as a matter of law on the ground that the statute of limitations bars this...

ARIZONA RIGHT TO LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMM. v. BAYLESS

Constitutional Law, Elections, Media Law
A state statute that regulated political speech in the days before an election, by requiring certain notice prior to distribution, violated the First...

PORTER v. JONES

Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Elections
Claims by web site creators and users, accused of brokering an exchange of votes under California law, were not moot, unripe, or barred by the...

MARTINEZ-SANES v. TURNBULL

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Three government employees did not qualify as policy-makers under Virgin Islands law; hence, their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated...

MAJORS v. ABELL

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Elections
A suit challenging the constitutionality of an Indiana statute, which requires that persons paying for certain political advertising be identified in...

ROBERTS v. LOS ANGELES COUNTY BAR ASS'N

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Elections, Injury & Tort Law
The anti-SLAPP statute applies to plaintiff's complaint for breach of contract and fraud arising from defendant's from rating of plaintiff as "not...

CAMACHO v. BRANDON

Civil Rights, Elections, Labor & Employment Law
A city council employee and legislative aide to a council member could not maintain a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 civil rights action for his firing in...

ARAKAKI v. STATE OF HAWAII

Constitutional Law, Elections
The state of Hawaii's requirement that trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs be "Hawaiian", abridges the right to vote under the Fifteenth...

BD. OF EDUC. OF THE TOWNSHIP OF BRANCHBURG v. LIVINGSTON

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Elections
A state may limit representation of non-residents on a receiving school board, as long as the receiving board exercises a lesser level of control over...

OLD PERSON v. BROWN

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Indian Law
A vote-dilution claim under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was not actionable where the totality of the circumstances did not establish dilution...