PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION: Stay pending appeal in judicial political endorsement case denied… Lovell. [Read more…]
Elections, political endorsements, judge candidates
ELECTIONS: Political committee’s challenge of §13-35-231 prohibition against endorsing judicial candidates (so it can transform nonpartisan elections into partisan elections and attack “left-leaning state judges”) unlikely to succeed on merits given present factual record, preliminary [Read more…]
Elections, LR-119 invalidation rationale
ELECTIONS: LR-119 to provide for election of Supreme Court justices by district properly invalidated… non-retiring Justices not required to recuse… challenge justiciable… 60-page opinion explaining prior decision… Reynolds affirmed. [Read more…]
Elections, LR-119, Supreme Court judges by district
ELECTIONS: Reynolds’s order invalidating LR-119 (election of Supreme Court justices by district) affirmed on expedited appeal, opinion to follow… order. [Read more…]
Elections, voter reporting, libel, contribution limits
ELECTIONS: Preliminary injunction granted against enforcement of 13-35-225(3)(a) voter reporting and 13-37-131 political civil libel as unconstitutionally vague, denied as to contribution limits for individuals, political committees, political parties, and as to corporate contribution [Read more…]