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Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Ind. Courts - Update on the status of the Indiana voter photo-ID law challenge
Back on April 28 the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has a story headlined "ICLU plans suit to derail voter-ID law." The story is quoted in this ILB entry.
In October a Georgia federal judge put that state's photo ID requirement on hold, as related in this ILB entry from Oct. 19th. A few days later Jim Stinson of the Gary Post-Tribune took a look at the possible impact on Indiana of the Georgia federal district court decision, according to this Oct. 23rd ILB entry. A quote from Stinson's story:
Ken Falk, legal director for the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, is hard at work on a brief challenging Heinold’s law [State Sen. Vic Heinold, R-Kouts, is the bill’s author]. The ICLU will lead the charge against the bill in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Sarah Barker, a Southern Indiana district court. His brief is due Oct. 31, and a year-end decision is expected.Well, year-end is near. The ILB admittedly had lost track of this case, until directed today by a reader to a site that has ALL the pleadings.
It is a great site, Election Law @ Moritz, run by a number of faculty members at Mortiz College of Law at The Ohio State University. Here is the page with all the pleadings in the pending case of Indiana Democratic Party v. Rokita, plus a good summary of the case.
AND while you are at the Moritz site, take at look at some of its features including Redistricting Developments, Major Pending Election Law Litigation (with a terrific table), and Top 10 Unresolved Election Law Questions.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 21, 2005 07:30 PM
Posted to Ind Fed D.Ct. Decisions