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13 Jan 2012, 8:05 am by Rick Hasen
Union-Leader: “The New Hampshire League of Women Voters Thursday called on the state Attorney General’s Office for a full-scale prosecution of ‘out-of-state con artists’ for allegedly falsely claiming to be recently deceased New Hampshire residents to obtain their ballots during Tuesday’s presidential primary.” [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 2:26 pm by Andrew Morgan
On Monday, the Supreme Court had ordered [text, PDF] the parties in League of Women Voters v. [read post]
29 Dec 2017, 8:33 pm by Andrew Morgan
A judge on Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court [official website] on Friday ruled [opinion, PDF] that those challenging the state's 2011 congressional map in League of Women Voters v. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 1:38 pm
The Louisville Lawyers Chapter co-sponsored this event with The Alexander Hamilton Historical Society of Kentucky and the League of Women Voters of Kentucky on March 7, 2009. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 11:19 am
Plaintiffs, including the Ohio NAACP, League of Women Voters and several African-American churches had challenged changes made in the last [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 8:19 am by Erin McCarthy Holliday
The case was brought by consolidated plaintiffs Common Cause and the League of Women Voters of North Carolina [advocacy websites], among others, who argued that the districts constitute a partisan gerrymander in violation of the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and Article I, Sections 2 and 4 of the... [read post]
12 Jul 2023, 4:44 am by Dan Tokaji
The Salt Lake Tribune reports on yesterday’s oral argument in League of Women Voters v. [read post]
21 May 2008, 6:04 am
" The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania today contains an article headlined "Chief justice warns League, attorney of repercussions" that begins, "The chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said the League of Women Voters 'slanders' the court and its former chief justice in a federal lawsuit, and he warned the group and its attorney could face repercussions. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 5:45 pm by Laura Mikeworth
Following the fight for the federal amendment for woman’s suffrage, Hooper was elected to serve as president for the National League of Women Voters. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 9:29 am by CJLF Staff
Law: Dan Burns of Reuters reports Pennsylvania Commonwealth Judge Robert Simpson  rejected an effort by the NAACP and the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania to block the PA voter I.D. law Wednesday, supporting the argument that the law is needed to prevent fraud and non-citizen voting. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 8:42 am by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
As we pointed out last week, the right to vote in that state is threatened by a new law that makes it nearly impossible for organizations like the nonpartisan League of Women Voters to register voters. [read post]
The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania along with Lorraine Haw, a registered voter, sued Kathy Boockvar, Secretary of the Commonwealth, to prevent Boockvar from certifying the amendment, known as Marsy’s Law. [read post]
30 Nov 2007, 6:54 am
Chris Shays, R-4, from Connecticut, recently informed the New Canaan League of Women Voters that "It's unlikely that there will be any real reform before the next election. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 12:18 pm by Katie O’Connor, Voting Rights Project
House Bill 4549, modeled after a Florida law that forced the League of Women Voters and other civic organizations to abandon voter registration efforts in the state, would effectively shut down community-based voter registration drives in South Carolina, requiring any individual or organization to register with the state before assisting other South Carolinians in registering to vote, and subjecting those individuals or organizations to up to $1,000… [read post]
29 May 2020, 8:33 am by Xi Lucy Shi
The lawsuit was filed by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kentucky, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Covington & Burling, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Kentucky, the Louisville Urban League, the Kentucky State Conference of the NAACP and several individuals, to vindicate their rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution. [read post]
20 Jan 2008, 10:21 am
Heather Augustyn of the NWI Times reports:VALPARAISO | Members of the League of Women Voters listened to a guest speaker on a freezing Saturday morning talk about the variety of threats Lake Michigan faces. [read post]
6 Nov 2019, 10:55 am by Erin McCarthy Holliday
Two Pennsylvania civil rights groups, state chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union and the League of Women voters, filed the lawsuit in October challenging the ballot question. [read post]
2 Apr 2007, 8:56 am
Part II of the League of Women Voters of Oregon report on "The Oregon Judiciary" is out (previous reports are here.) [read post]