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Voter Registration for Disabled Students

Robert Timothy Reagan, Margaret S. Williams, Marie Leary, Catherine R. Borden, Jessica L. Snowden, Patricia D. Breen, Jason A. Cantone
June 30, 2023

National Coalition for Students with Disabilities Education and Legal Defense Fund v. Bush (Robert L. Hinkle, N.D. Fla. 4:00-cv-442)
A federal complaint alleged that Florida failed to provide voter-registration services to disabled students, as required by the National Voter Registration Act, for the 2000 general election. The district judge concluded that “the time to seek any *registration+ redress affecting the 2000 election was prior to that election.” Respecting long-term relief, the case settled in May 2001. The judge later learned that a named plaintiff was also a named plaintiff in a similar action in another state; he awarded the plaintiffs zero attorney fees.
Subject: Registration procedures. Topics: National Voter Registration Act; registration procedures; laches; attorney fees.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.

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Tags:
Attorney Fees | Election Litigation | National Voter Registration Act | Registration Procedures | Emergency Proceedings | Laches | U.S. District Courts | N.D. Fla.