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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-834 Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Eighth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party Whether a government can threaten criminal prosecution against voters who sign petitions supporting minor political party candidates without notice th…
19-309 John C. Carney, Governor of Delaware v. James R. Adams Third Circuit 2019-09-06 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (4) civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-appointments judicial-independence judicial-qualifications judicial-selection party-affiliation political-balance political-party standing state-constitution state-sovereignty Does the First Amendment invalidate a longstanding state constitutional provision that limits judges affiliated with any one political party to no mor…
18-450 Utah Republican Party v. Spencer J. Cox, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) candidate-selection expressive-association first-amendment political-parties political-party standard-bearer state-regulation viewpoint-discrimination Does the First Amendment permit a government to compel a political party to use a state-preferred process for selecting a party's standard-bearers for…
24A529 Phil Lyman v. Spencer J. Cox, Governor of Utah, et al. Utah Presumed Complete candidate-selection convention-nomination political-party primary-election right-of-association state-interference Whether a state can constitutionally mandate a direct primary election that overrides a political party's convention-based candidate nomination proces…