On March 21, the Alabama Libertarian Party asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its case over access to the list of registered voters. Alabama gives a list of the registered voters free to the qualified parties, but it charges $36,000 for an unqualified party, even if that unqualified party is petitioning and obviously needs the list to help it check the validity of its petition.
In 1970, the U.S. Supreme Court summarily affirmed a judgment of a 3-judge U.S. District Court in New York, that if the state gives a free list of the registered voters to the qualified parties, it must give it to unqualified parties who are petitioning. Despite that, and precedents from lower courts outside Alabama that agreed with that principle, the federal courts in Alabama refused to follow the precedent and ruled against the Libertarian Party. Here is the cert petition. The case number hasn’t been assigned yet (the number on the filing is not the case number).
this seems like a really strong case.
Cert pets have 21-XXXX numbers
Summary affirms mean very little after the gay marriage case.
21A408 was earlier — to extend time to file Cert Pet
NEW record for e law cases this SCOTUS term ???
Even more than Trump cases last year term ???
There is a circuit split on the issue. The 2nd circuit ruled in favor of the Libertarian Party in 1994, in New York, on the same issue. So the 11th circuit and the 2nd circuit disagree with each other.
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