LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MAINE v. DIAMOND

No. 96-1350.

82 F.3d 546 (1996)

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MAINE, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. G. William DIAMOND, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 30, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E.F. Langsdorf, Anne Skopp, and Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, Portland, ME, on brief, for appellants.

Andrew Ketterer, Attorney General, and Thomas D. Warren, Assistant Attorney General, Augusta, ME, on brief, for appellees G. William Diamond and Andrew Ketterer.

John H. Rich, III, William J. Sheils, and Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley & Keddy, Portland, ME, on brief, for intervenor-appellee Committee for Governmental Reform.

Samuel W. Lanham, Jr., Cuddy & Lanham, Bangor, ME, and Stephen J. Safranek, Grosse Pt. Pk., MI, on brief, for intervenor-appellee U.S. Term Limits, Inc.

Before SELYA, BOUDIN and STAHL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from the denial of a motion for preliminary injunctive relief. Plaintiffs, who include two incumbent state legislators and four of their supporters, challenge the validity of the Maine Term Limitation Act of 1993. 21-A Me.Rev.Stat.Ann. §§ 551-54. On April 10, 1996, the date their notice of appeal was filed, plaintiffs moved for an expedited briefing schedule and requested that a decision from this court issue by "the end of...

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