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Enjoining False Robocalls About Voting by Mail

Robert Timothy Reagan
September 3, 2023

National Coalition on Black Civic Participation v. Wohl (Victor Marrero, S.D.N.Y. 1:20-cv-8668)
A district judge required private parties who had made robocalls threatening voters with false statements about voting by mail to make curative robocalls.
Subject: Campaign activities. Topics: Campaign materials; early voting; absentee ballots; corporate electioneering; intervention; matters for state courts; pro se party; interlocutory appeal; Covid-19.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.

Update: Consent Decree, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, No. 1:20-cv-8668 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 10, 2024), D.E. 344 (reflecting an agreement to pay the plaintiffs $393,000 over time).

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Tags:
Interlocutory Appeal | Election Litigation | Absentee Ballots | Campaign Activities | Campaign Materials | Corporate Electioneering | Early Voting | Interlocutory Appeal | Intervention | Matters for State Courts | Emergency Proceedings | Pro Se Litigation | Covid-19 | U.S. District Courts | S.D.N.Y.