Nevada Green Party et al v. Cegavske

Filing 5

ORDER: Plaintiff's must serve a copy of 1 Complaint and 3 Motion for TRO, on defendant by 8/19/2016. Responses due by 8/25/2016. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a Motion Hearing re 3 Motion for TRO is set for 8/31/2016 at 02:00 PM in LV Courtroom 6D before Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey. Signed by Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey on 8/17/2016. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - DC)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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DISTRICT OF NEVADA

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Nevada Green Party, et al.,
2:16-cv-01951-JAD-CWH

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Plaintiff
Order Setting Motion for Temporary
Restraining Order for Hearing with an
Expedited Briefing Schedule

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v.

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Barbara C. Cegavske,

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Defendant

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Plaintiffs sue Nevada Secretary of State Barbara K. Cegavske under the First and Fourteenth

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Amendments and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge the constitutionality of NRS § 293.1715(1)(c),

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under which minor political parties must submit petitions to place the names of its candidates for

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partisan office on the ballot “[n]ot later than the third Friday in June preceding the general election,”

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and NRS § 293.182(1)(c), which requires these petitions to be submitted to the county clerks for

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verification of the signatures “not later than 10 working days before the last day to file the petition.”

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Plaintiffs move for a temporary restraining order enjoining the Secretary of State from enforcing

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these allegedly unconstitutionally burdensome time constraints and to allow the Green Party to

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submit the additional signatures that it has collected in support of its ballot-access petition so that its

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candidate may be placed on the general-election ballot.

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With good cause appearing to shorten the briefing schedule, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that

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plaintiffs must serve the complaint and motion for temporary restraining order [ECF Nos. 1,

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3] on defendant by August 19, 2016. Any response to plaintiffs’ motion must be filed by August

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25, 2016.

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that plaintiffs’ motion for temporary restraining order

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[ECF No. 3] will be heard at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 31, 2016, in Courtroom 6D at

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333 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, Nevada 89101.

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Dated this 17th day of August, 2016
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