Last Updated: November 14, 2012 at 12:48 PM
Bryanton v. Johnson
Case Information
Date Filed: September 17, 2012
State: Michigan
Issue:
Current Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Case 2:12-cv-14114-PDB-PJK)
Issue:
Whether Johnson, Michigan's Secretary of State, was allowed to include on in-person and absentee ballots a check-box that asked voters to verify their citizenship, in the absence of a statutory mandate to do so.
Status:
Complaint filed 9/17/12. Preliminary Injunction granted 10/10/12. Defendant's Answer filed 11/13/12.
District Court Documents
- Complaint
(filed 9/17/12) - Plaintiff's Motion for Preliminary Injunction (filed 9/20/12)
- Johnson's Response in Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for Preliminary Injunction (filed 9/25/12)
- Plaintiff's Reply Brief in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction (filed 9/28/12)
- Defendant's Motion for Substitution or Protective Order (filed 10/1/12)
- Plaintiff's Opposition to Defendant's Motion for Substitution or Protective Order (filed 10/2/12)
- Affidavit of Melissa K. Malerman (filed 10/2/12)
- Defendant's Motion in Limine (filed 10/3/12)
- Defendant's Proposed Findings of Fact (filed 10/3/12)
- Plaintiffs' Proposed Findings of Fact (filed 10/3/12)
- Plaintiffs' Witness List (filed 10/3/12)
- Defendant's Witness List (filed 10/3/12)
- Plaintiffs' Response to Defendant's Motion in Limine (filed 10/3/12)
- Stipulation and Order (filed 10/4/12)
- Order Denying Motion to Substitute or Motion for Protective Order (filed 10/4/12)
- Order Denying Defendant's Motion in Limine (filed 10/4/12)
- Joint Exhibit List (filed 10/4/12)
- Order Granting Plaintiff's Motion for Preliminary Injunction (filed 10/10/12)
- Amended Plaintiffs' Exhibit List (filed 10/12/12)
- Defendant's Motion to Strike (filed 10/22/12)
- Appendix to Motion to Strike (filed 10/22/12)
- Appendix to Motion to Strike
- Plaintiff's Response in Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Strike (filed 11/5/12)
- Defendant's Reply to Plaintiff's Response to Motion to Strike (filed 11/9/12)
- Defendant's Appendix (filed 11/9/12)
- Defendant's Appendix
- Defendant's Answer and Affirmative Defenses (filed 11/13/12)
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Commentary
Silence of the Lambs
Dale A. Oesterle
With the election of 2012 now well over and past the second inauguration of the incumbent President, the historical analysis of the events has begun and will last as long as written human history lasts. An interesting tidbit may already be lost to the majesty of the moment.
The voters of three very different states, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Ohio, all had an opportunity to call state constitutional conventions. In each state the voters turned the opportunity down by very similar votes, 68%, 64% and 68% respectively against.
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