JACOBSON v. FLORIDA SECRETARY OF STATE

No. 19-14552.

974 F.3d 1236 (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.

September 3, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abha Khanna , Perkins Coie, LLP, SEATTLE, WA, Jacki L. Anderson , Marc Erik Elias , Elisabeth Frost , John Michael Geise , Alexi M. Velez , Perkins Coie, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, Amanda Rebecca Callais , ANCHORAGE, AK, Frederick Stanton Wermuth , King Blackwell Zehnder & Wermuth, PA, ORLANDO, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Ashley E. Davis , Bradley Robert McVay , Florida Department of State, Joseph A. Brown , Mohammad O. Jazil , Gary V. Perko , Attorney, Edward Mark Wenger , Hopping Green & Sams, PA, Joseph Jacquot , 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, for Defendants-Appellants NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE, REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION.

Kyle D. Hawkins , Attorney General, State of Texas, Jeffrey Carl Mateer , Ken Paxton , Office of the Attorney General of Texas, AUSTIN, TX, for Amici Curiae STATE OF TEXAS, STATE OF ALABAMA, STATE OF ALASKA, STATE OF ARIZONA, STATE OF GEORGIA, STATE OF INDIANA, STATE OF KENTUCKY, STATE OF OKLAHOMA, STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA.

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


We vacate our original opinion in this appeal and substitute in its place the following opinion.

This appeal requires us to decide whether several voters and organizations may challenge in federal court a law that governs the order in which candidates appear on the ballot in Florida's general elections. The law...

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