LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WIS. v. WALKER

No. 2012AP584-AC.

834 N.W.2d 393 (2013)

2013 WI App 77

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION NETWORK, INC. and Melanie G. Ramey, Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. Scott WALKER, Thomas Barland, Gerald C. Nichol, Michael Brennan, Thomas Cane, David G. Deininger and Timothy Vocke, Defendants-Appellants, Dorothy Janis, James Janis, and Matthew Augustine, Intervenors-Co-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed May 30, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the defendants-appellants, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Thomas C. Bellavia , Carrie M. Benedon , and Clayton P. Kawski , assistant attorneys general, and J.B. Van Hollen , attorney general.

On behalf of the intervenors-co-appellants, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Joseph Louis Olson of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Milwaukee, and Michael T. Morley , Washington, D.C.

On behalf of the plaintiffs-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of Lester A. Pines , Susan Crawford , and Tamara B. Packard of Cullen Weston Pines & Bach LLP, Madison.

A nonparty brief was filed by Richard M. Esenberg , Michael Fischer , and Thomas C. Kamenick of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, Milwaukee, for Margaret Farrow, George Mitchell, Michael Sandvick, Aaron Rodriguez, and Deborah Haywood.

A nonparty brief was filed by Helen Marks Dicks of AARP Wisconsin, Madison, and Daniel B. Kohrman of AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, D.C., for AARP.

A nonparty brief was filed by Peter E. McKeever and Anne Bensky of Garvey McNeil & Associates, S.C., Madison, for The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.

A nonparty brief was filed by Richard D. Greenlee and Dyann L. Hafner , assistant corporation counsels, Madison, for Dane County.

A nonparty brief was filed by Lane Fitzgerald of The Fitzgerald Law Firm, Beloit, for The United States Justice Foundation.

Before LUNDSTEN, P.J., HIGGINBOTHAM and BLANCHARD, JJ.


BLANCHARD, J.

¶ 1 In 2011 Wisconsin Act 23, the legislature enacted statutes under which, with narrow exceptions, all persons seeking to vote must present one of several specified forms of photo identification to election officials. The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Education Network, Inc., and its president (the League) sought a declaration in the circuit court that the photo identification requirement is facially...

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