ballot-initiative

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A222 Oscar Stilley v. John Thurston, Secretary of State of Arkansas, et al. Arkansas 2024-08-29 Presumed Complete ballot-access ballot-initiative constitutional-challenge election-law supreme-court-review voter-standing Whether a state supreme court can deny a voter's standing to challenge a ballot initiative without a full evidentiary hearing on the voter's registrat…
24A6 Advance Colorado, et al. v. Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State Tenth Circuit 2024-07-08 Presumed Complete ballot-initiative compelled-speech false-speech first-amendment government-speech petition-process Whether a state law compelling citizens to include government-mandated language on ballot initiative petitions violates the First Amendment by compell…
21-951 Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied ballot-initiative chilling-effect civil-rights constitutional-challenge donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech nonprofit-disclosure speech-rights standing standing-doctrine Did the Tenth Circuit err?
20-1072 Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Amici (1) anderson-burdick anderson-burdick-test ballot-access ballot-initiative electoral-rights first-amendment initiative recurring-issue signature-gathering strict-scrutiny Whether and how the First Amendment applies to regulations that impede a person's ability to place an initiative on the ballot
19-974 William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State Sixth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Amici (2) ballot-initiative ballot-initiatives civil-rights constitutional-law election-law first-amendment free-speech strict-scrutiny subject-matter-restriction subject-matter-restrictions voting-rights Whether the First Amendment and strict scrutiny apply to subject matter restrictions on ballot initiatives
18-1293 Evergreen Freedom Foundation, dba Freedom Foundation v. Washington Washington 2019-04-12 Denied Amici (5)Response WaivedRelisted (2) ballot-initiative ballot-initiatives campaign-finance constitutional-vagueness due-process fair-campaign-practices-act first-amendment free-speech vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether Washington's campaign finance statutes violate due process by being unconstitutionally vague as applied to legal services for ballot initiativ…