JACOBSON v. FLORIDA SECRETARY OF STATE

No. 19-14552.

957 F.3d 1193 (2020)

Nancy Carola JACOBSON, Terence Fleming, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. FLORIDA SECRETARY OF STATE, National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 29, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abha Khanna , Perkins Coie, LLP, SEATTLE, WA, Amanda Rebecca Callais , Perkins Coie, LLP, ANCHORAGE, AK, Jacki L. Anderson , Marc Erik Elias , Elisabeth Frost , John Michael Geise , Alexi M. Velez , Perkins Coie, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees

Ashley E. Davis , Bradley Robert McVay , Florida Department of State, TALLAHASSEE, FL, Joseph A. Brown , Mohammad O. Jazil , Gary V. Perko , Attorney, Edward Mark Wenger, Hopping Green & Sams, PA, TALLAHASSEE, FL, Joseph W. Jacquot , Attorney General's Office, TALLAHASSEE, FL, Joshua Pratt , Nicholas Primrose , Executive Office of the Governor, TALLAHASSEE, FL, for Defendant-Appellant FLORIDA SECRETARY OF STATE

Jason Brett Torchinsky , Shawn Sheehy , Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky, PLLC, WARRENTON, VA, for Defendants-Appellants NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE, REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION

Trevor W. Ezell , Attorney General's Office, AUSTIN, TX, Kyle D. Hawkins , Texas Attorney General's Office, AUSTIN, TX, Attorney General, State of Texas, Jeffrey Carl Mateer , Ken Paxton , Office of the Attorney General of Texas, AUSTIN, TX, for Amici Curiae

Before WILLIAM PRYOR, JILL PRYOR, and LUCK, Circuit Judges.


This appeal requires us to decide whether several voters and organizations have standing to challenge a law that governs the order in which candidates appear on the ballot in Florida's general elections. The law provides that candidates of the party that won the last gubernatorial election shall appear first for each...

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