U.S. District Court Finds Democratic Party Intervention in North Carolina Green Party Lawsuit was So Faulty as to Merit Award of Attorneys Fees Against the Democratic Party

On April 2, a U.S. District Court Judge ruled that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the North Carolina Democratic Party must pay attorneys fees to the Green Party’s attorney, stemming from the Democrats’ intervention into the 2022 Green Party ballot access lawsuit. In 2022 the Green Party won a lawsuit to get on the ballot in North Carolina. During the litigation, the Democrats intervened in the case. Also after the Green Party had won in federal court, the Democrats filed a new lawsuit to remove the Greens in state court.

The U.S. District Court determined that some of the actions of those two Democratic Party bodies was “frivolous, unreasonable, and without foundation”, so the Democrats must pay $6 525 to the Green Party’s attorney. Green Party of North Carolina v North Carolina State Board of Elections, e.d., 5:22cv-276. Here is the order.


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U.S. District Court Finds Democratic Party Intervention in North Carolina Green Party Lawsuit was So Faulty as to Merit Award of Attorneys Fees Against the Democratic Party — 8 Comments

  1. Has anyone considered whether the three North Carolina election board members who denied the Green Party’s 2022 petition on a bluff should be held liable for attorney fees incurred by the NC Green Party?

  2. Good and just ruling. Congratulations to the North Carolina Green Party.

  3. Is this separate from any litigation involving Marc Elias and his dirty tricks team that lied about being members of the Board of Elections and also Green Party officials while trying to get people to “un-sign” the party’s petitions??

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