COVID-Related Election Litigation Tracker

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This database consolidates and tracks litigation concerning the effect of the pandemic on election law. The purpose of this tool is to provide an interactive list of relevant cases that can be searched by issue, court, status, and jurisdiction.

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Jorgensen v. Dunlap

Closed. Settled and/or Withdrawn (Voluntary dismissal)

Jorgensen v. Dunlap, No. 1:20-cv-00272 (D. Me.)

  Case Summary Plaintiff is the Libertarian Party of Maine candidate for U.S. President in the Nov. 2020 election and seeks to challenge the Maine's petition signature requirements for independent candidates in light of the difficulty created by the COVID-19 crisis to obtain such signatures. Defendant is the Secretary of State of Maine and is charged with enforcing and administering Maine election laws, including the petition signature requirements for independent candidates for the 2020 general election. Plaintiff brings claims for declaratory and injunctive relief to reduce the petition signature requirement from 4,000 to 2,000, because of the difficulty created by the COVID-19 crisis. Plaintiff also asks the Court to enter a judgment declaring that the Maine's petition signature requirements as written violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution as applied to independent candidates during this particular election.
Filed 07/31/2020
State Maine
Type of Court Federal
Circuit First Circuit
Status Closed. Settled and/or Withdrawn (Voluntary dismissal)
Last Updated 09/05/2020
Issue Tag(s) Candidate Signature Requirement (Threshold Number)
Complaint(s) 07/31/2020: Complaint filed.
Dispositive Ruling(s) 08/10/2020: Order/Ruling, Voluntarily Dismissed by Plaintiff. Following the filing of Plaintiff’s complaint in this action, Defendant has not filed or served an answer or motion for summary judgment responding to Plaintiff’s complaint.
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