Recently, a Utah group that circulated an initiative petition filed a federal lawsuit, to keep the names and addresses of the signers from being made public. This is the same issue that the U.S. Supreme Court will be grappling with on April 28 in Doe v Reed. See this news story about the Utah lawsuit, which had a hearing on April 14 before U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups, a Bush, Jr. appointee.

The case is Utahns for Ethical Government v Barton, 2:10-cv-00333. The plaintiffs went to the trouble of suing and serving all 29 county clerks in Utah. The hearing is at 10:30 a.m. on April 15. Utahns for Ethical Government’s initiative is strongly opposed by the Utah Republican Party, and the lawsuit charges that many people who signed the initiative fear retribution if the list of names and addresses is made public.