LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO v. BLACKWELL

No. 3:05CV7309.

432 F.Supp.2d 742 (2006)

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO, et al., Plaintiffs, v. J. Kenneth BLACKWELL, Secretary of State of Ohio, and Bob Taft, Governor of Ohio, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, Western Division.

March 15, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian D. Greer, Courtney E. Smothers, David E. Kouba, Kevin M. Green, Michael R. Geske, Shelby H. Hunt, Anne P. Davis, Bruce L. Montgomery, James P. Joseph, John A. Freedman, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, Evan S. Greene, Bert H. Deixler, Bertrand C. Sellier, Brian H. Schusterman, Caroline S. Press, Jennifer R. Scullion, Proskauer Rose, New York, NY, Jeffery A. Gross, Proskauer Rose, Los Angeles, CA, Jason A. Hill, Steven P. Collier, Connelly, Jackson & Collier, Toledo, OH, Benjamin J. Blustein, Jon M. Greenbaum, Jonah H. Goldman, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Brenda Wright, National Voting Rights Institute, Boston, MA, Deborah Liu, Elliott M. Mincberg, People for the American Way Foundation, Washington, DC, Robert Rubin, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs.

Damian W. Sikora, Office of the Attorney General, Richard N. Coglianese, Office of the Attorney General Constitutional Of fices Section, Columbus, OH, for Defendants.


ORDER

CARR, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs League of Women Voters, et al. (LWV) brought this action against defendants J. Kenneth Blackwell, Secretary of State of Ohio, and Bob Taft, Governor of Ohio, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. LWV alleges Secretary Blackwell and Governor Taft administer a voting process which systematically impairs Ohio citizens' voting rights. Jurisdiction exists under...

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