Sentences with phrase «ballot access lawsuits»

Recent ballot access lawsuits have forced the states of Ohio and Tennessee to include presidential candidates from the Constitution Party and other parties on the ballot for 2012.

The Knoxville News Sentinel has this story on the new ballot access lawsuit filed two weeks ago by the Constitution and Green Parties.

By contrast, when the original ballot access lawsuit was filed in 2007 by three minor parties, it got no publicity at all when it was filed, and even after it won in September 2010, it got very little publicity.

On May 22, U.S. District Court Judge William K. Watkins, Jr., whose court is in Montgomery, Alabama, cancelled the May 24 hearing in Stein v Chapman, the ballot access lawsuit filed by the Constitution, Green and Libertarian Parties.

July 20, 2011: Arkansas Green Party gets Ready to Petition to Get Back on Ballot May 11, 2011: Eighth Circuit Hears Arkansas Green Party Case May 2, 2011: Hearing Set in Arkansas Green Party Ballot Access Lawsuit

The U.S. Supreme Court has said in Storer v Brown and Mandel v Bradley that a key indicator that a ballot access lawsuit is unconstitutional is how often it is used successfully.

August 9, 2011: Arkansas Green Party Loses Lawsuit Against the 3 % Vote Test to Remain on the Ballot July 20, 2011: Arkansas Green Party gets Ready to Petition to Get Back on Ballot May 11, 2011: Eighth Circuit Hears Arkansas Green Party Case May 2, 2011: Hearing Set in Arkansas Green Party Ballot Access Lawsuit

The Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE) has just made a donation to help fund the lawsuit Stein v Chapman, the ballot access lawsuit pending in Alabama.

July 28, 2011: Nashville's Daily Newspaper Publicizes New Ballot Access Lawsuit July 20, 2011: Tennessee Constitution Party and Green Party File New Ballot Access Lawsuit May 23, 2011: Tennessee Governor Signs Bill Making Miniscule Improvements in Ballot Access

The Reform Party of North Carolina hopes Roque De La Fuente's ballot access lawsuit will pave the way for laxer ballot laws, and break the establishment's stranglehold on the North Carolina ballot.

Related Articles: August 16, 2011: Ohio Libertarian Party Ballot Access Lawsuit to be Heard August 30 August 15, 2011: Ohio Libertarian Party Asks for Quick Injunctive Relief in Ballot Access Case August 11, 2011: Former Ohio Secretary of State Predicts Libertarian Party Will Win New Ballot Access Lawsuit

August 11, 2011: Former Ohio Secretary of State Predicts Libertarian Party Will Win New Ballot Access Lawsuit August 9, 2011: Ohio Libertarians sue for ballot access August 9, 2011: Libertarian Party Sues Ohio Over Inadequacy of New Ballot Access Law, and Also Over Due Process

August 15, 2011: Ohio Libertarian Party Asks for Quick Injunctive Relief in Ballot Access Case August 11, 2011: Former Ohio Secretary of State Predicts Libertarian Party Will Win New Ballot Access Lawsuit August 9, 2011: Ohio Libertarians sue for ballot access

August 19, 2011: Ohio Democratic Referendum Petition Might Indirectly Restore Minor Party Ballot Access for 2012 August 16, 2011: Ohio Libertarian Party Ballot Access Lawsuit to be Heard August 30 August 15, 2011: Ohio Libertarian Party Asks for Quick Injunctive Relief in Ballot Access Case

July 9, 2011: Ohio Socialist Party U.S. Senate Candidate Sues Over Lack of Objective Standards for Debate Inclusion July 8, 2011: Ohio Governor Signs HB 194 July 6, 2011: Ohio Green Party Press Release Promises New Ballot Access Lawsuit

Last night, Ballot Access News appealed for donations and / or pledges to COFOE (the Coalition for Free & Open Elections) for the purpose of making it possible for the Vermont ballot access lawsuit to go forward.

Maryland Green Party members will be in attendance at the Maryland Court of Appeals in Annapolis on Friday, March 2, 2012 as their ballot access lawsuit goes before the state's high court.

According to this story, on August 10, former Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner predicted on August 10 that the Ohio Libertarian Party will win its new ballot access lawsuit, which had been filed August 9.

Click Tennessee Constitution Party and Green Party File New Ballot Access Lawsuit May 23, 2011: Tennessee Governor Signs Bill Making Miniscule Improvements in Ballot Access May 9, 2011: Tennessee Legislature Passes Bill that makes Only Slight Improvements to Ballot Access

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We even joined in a lawsuit challenging the ballot access laws.

Independent candidate ballot access in Illinois improved in 2007, as a result of the lawsuit Lee v Keith.

On January 31, 2012, the Oklahoma Libertarian Party and the Oklahoma Green Party filed a lawsuit, challenging the state's ballot access procedure for newly - qualifying parties, which this year required 51,739 valid signatures due March 1 (the state defends the early deadline on the grounds that all parties, even newly - qualifying parties, must choose nominees in the June primary).

The U.S. District Court Judge decision missed the main point of the lawsuit, that the unfavorable Georgia ballot access precedents do not relate to presidential elections.

The aim of this lawsuit is to gain ballot access by keeping the Oklahoma Board of Elections from enforcing unconstitutional ballot restrictions.

Reform Party Presidential Candidate Roque De Le Fuente has joined with Green Party nominee Jill Stein to file a lawsuit over Oklahoma ballot access laws in federal court.

On December 17, the Illinois Green Party, and its nominee for U.S. House, 2nd district, in the upcoming April 2013 special election, filed a lawsuit against the ballot access requirements for non-qualified parties and independent candidates.

On July 19, the Green Party of Tennessee, and the Constitution Party of Tennessee, jointly filed a new lawsuit in federal court, alleging that the new ballot access law passed this year is just as unconstitutional as the old one.

The April 1, 2012 printed Ballot Access News will contain a chart listing lawsuits that concern deadlines to get on the bBallot Access News will contain a chart listing lawsuits that concern deadlines to get on the ballotballot.

On January 27, the Massachusetts Attorney General filed this brief in the State Supreme Court, in the lawsuit over whether the election law either permits or forbids using a stand - in presidential candidate on the ballot access petition of an unqualified party.

The lawsuit was filed in 2012 and pointed out that the U.S. Supreme Court and the Eleventh Circuit have both ruled that ballot access for President has more protection than ballot access for other office (Georgia is in the 11th circuit).

Attorney Mike Raffauf is representing our party and the Green Party of Georgia (which is in the same position regarding ballot access) in the lawsuit for a very reasonable fee.

As of 2014, a lawsuit by the Green Party and Constitution Party for ballot access is still pending in federal court and has received an initial favorable ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals

On January 10, a U.S. District Court held oral arguments in Green Party of Tennessee et al v Goins, a lawsuit in which the Green and Constitution Parties challenge the Tennessee ballot access law for new and previously unqualified parties.

It is very likely that the Ohio Libertarian Party will bring a new lawsuit, very soon, arguing that the new ballot access law passed by the 2011 legislature is just as unconstitutional as the old one that was declared unconstitutional in 2006.

Lawsuits are pending in both states, and also a bill is pending in the North Carolina legislature to ease ballot access.

In addition to these lawsuits, Roque De La Fuente has filed similar lawsuits in states with strict ballot access laws.

U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe is expected to rule on the issue of when New York should hold its party primaries, part of an ongoing Department of Justice lawsuit to force the state into complying with the MOVE Act, which governs timely access to military and overseas ballots.

Green Party organizer and activist Carl J. Romanelli was the plaintiff in the lawsuit and has been a tireless ballot access organizer for the GP:

The lawsuit charges that Georgia's ballot access law, as applied to presidential candidates, requires too many signatures.

Bob Bastress, a law professor who has argued many ballot access cases over the past 32 years, will be representing the independent candidate who filed the lawsuit.

In 1970, the Socialist Labor Party won a lawsuit against the Ohio ballot access law for minor parties.

In their lawsuits, filed last May, the groups argued that Proposition 39, a state ballot measure passed by voters in 2000, grants charters» access to facilities in...

First was the legislative effort, then a ballot question, and the third alternative was a lawsuit using an elite Boston law firm to «file a class - action suit to lift the charter cap» because «it unconstitutionally denies children access to an adequate education.»