PAVEK v. DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT, INC.

No. 20-2410.

967 F.3d 905 (2020)

Madeline PAVEK; Ethan Sykes; DSCC; DCCC, Plaintiffs-Appellees v. Steve Simon, in his official capacity as the Minnesota Secretary of State, Defendant-Appellee v. DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT, INC.; Republican National Committee; National Republican Senatorial Committee; National Republican Congressional Committee; Republican Party of Minnesota, Intervenors below-Appellants. Honest Elections Project; State of Texas; State of Georgia; State of West Virginia, Amici on Behalf of Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: July 31, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amanda J. Beane , Kevin J. Hamilton , PERKINS & COIE, Seattle, WA, Marc E. Elias , Jyoti Jasrasaria , Alexi Velez , PERKINS & COIE, Washington, DC, Sybil Louise Dunlop , Caitlinrose Hoolihan Fisher , Katherine M. Swenson , GREENE & ESPEL, Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiffs Appellees.

Nathan J. Hartshorn , Assistant Attorney General, ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Saint Paul, MN, for Defendant Appellee.

Alexa R. Baltes , Thomas R. McCarthy , CONSOVOY & MCCARTHY, Arlington, VA, Richard George Morgan , LEWIS & BRISBOIS, Minneapolis, MN, Patrick N. Strawbridge , CONSOVOY & MCCARTHY, Boston, MA, for Intervenor below Appellants.

Dallin B. Holt , Jason Brett Torchinsky , HOLTZMAN & VOGEL, Warrenton, VA, for Amiens on Behalf of Appellants Honest Elections Project.

Todd Lawrence Disher , William Thomas Thompson , ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Austin, TX, for Amici on Behalf of Appellants State of Texas, State of Georgia, State of West Virginia.

Before LOKEN, SHEPHERD, and GRASZ, Circuit Judges.


Two Minnesota voters and two political committees challenge section 204D.13(2) of the Minnesota Statutes, which requires major party candidates be listed on the ballot in reverse order of the parties' electoral showing in the last general election.1 According to the plaintiffs...

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