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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WIS. v. WALKER

No. 2012AP584.

851 N.W.2d 302 (2014)

2014 WI 97

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

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided July 31, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiffs-respondents-petitioners, there were briefs by Lester A. Pines , Tamara B. Packard , Susan Crawford , and Cullen Weston Pines & Bach LLP, Madison, and oral argument by Lester A. Pines.

For the defendants-appellants, the cause was argued by Clayton P. Kawski , assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was J.B. Van Hollen , attorney general, and Maria S. Lazar , assistant attorney general.

For the intervenors-co-appellants, there was a brief by James R. Troupis , Sarah E. Troupis , and Troupis Law Office LLC, Cross Plains; Michael T. Morley , Cranford, N.J.; and Dan Backer and Coolidge-Reagan Foundation, Washington, D.C, and oral argument by Michael T. Morley.

PATIENCE DRAKE ROGGENSACK, J.

¶ 1 We review a decision of the court of appeals1 reversing an order of the circuit court2 that declared portions of Wisconsin's voter identification law, 2011 Wis. Act 23, unconstitutional and permanently enjoined its enforcement.

¶ 2 Plaintiffs, the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Education Network, Inc., and its president, Melanie G. Ramey,

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