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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Elections |
| Title: | FED. ELECTION COMM'N v. COLORADO REPUBLICAN FED. CAMPAIGN COMM. |
| Date: | 06/25/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-191 |
| Summary: | States may restrict a party's coordinated expenditures to minimize circumvention of the Federal Election Campaign Act's contribution limits because coordinated expenditures are not like independent expenditures. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections |
| Title: | HUNT v. CROMARTIE |
| Date: | 04/18/01 |
| Case Number: | 99-1864 |
| Summary: | A party alleging that a district was improperly drawn in favor of minority group must at least show that the legislature could have achieved non-discrimminatory objectives by other means, where racial identification has a high correlation with party affiliation. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Elections |
| Title: | COOK v. GRALIKE |
| Date: | 02/28/01 |
| Case Number: | 99–929 |
| Summary: | States may not use ballots for congressional elections as a means of indirectly imposing restrictions on candidates for federal office because the Constitution does not delegate such power under the Elections Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Elections |
| Title: | BUSH v. GORE |
| Date: | 12/13/00 |
| Case Number: | 00-949 |
| Summary: | The absence of specific uniform standards for manual vote recounts, especially where the evidence shows that vote counting standards varied or changed within counties, violates the Equal Protection Clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Elections |
| Title: | BUSH v. PALM BEACH COUNTY CANVASSING BOARD |
| Date: | 12/04/00 |
| Case Number: | 00-836 |
| Summary: | Florida Supreme Court decision mandating hand recount in 2000 presidential election has considerable uncertainty as to the precise grounds for the decision, warranting vacateur and remand to that court. |