PITTSBURGH – A federal judge in Pittsburgh has denied an attempt by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign to overcome state laws governing mail-in voting, ballot signatures and election poll watchers, ruling it had not proved allegations of potential voter fraud statewide.
PITTSBURGH – The state’s top election official is not only seeking summary judgment in the lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign against herself and county election boards in Pennsylvania, but the intervention of the state Supreme Court, in arguing that the campaign’s claims are “legally flawed and fatally unsupported.”
PITTSBURGH – The battle between President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and county election boards in Pennsylvania continues, just before the deadline in which a stay in the case can be requested to be lifted, and with less than a month to go before the presidential election on Nov. 3.
PITTSBURGH – President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign will not be granted an injunction to segregate any presidential election ballots submitted in drop boxes throughout Pennsylvania since the state Supreme Court may rule on their validity prior to the election, according to a federal judge.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has stayed a lawsuit from President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign over mail-in ballots until at least October, in order for state courts to first resolve questions of law over the collection and tallying of such ballots.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar say President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign “continues to propagate speculative predictions of widespread voter fraud and vote dilution” in its lawsuit over mail-in ballots.
PITTSBURGH – In opposing 14 separate defendant motions to dismiss or join parties to a lawsuit over mail-in ballots, President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign says it is only “attempting to ensure that the upcoming General Election is conducted uniformly and in conformity with the Election Code” and “waiting is not an option” to resolve the matter.
PITTSBURGH – A Pennsylvania federal judge has granted permission to a number of groups seeking to intervene in the lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign over mail-in ballots, including the Pennsylvania State Democratic Party and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference.
PITTSBURGH – Boards of election in Bucks, Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties are looking to dismiss litigation initiated by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign over an allegedly illegal system for submitting and counting mail-in ballots.
PITTSBURGH – Groups hoping to weigh in on the lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign over Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot system didn’t come close to proving why they should be involved, the campaign is arguing.
PITTSBURGH – The first of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign sued for their allegedly illegal system for submitting and counting mail-in ballots has declared the complaint to be devoid of facts.
PITTSBURGH – President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has launched litigation against the state’s election authorities, charging the current system for submitting and counting mail-in ballots is illegal.
HARRISBURG – A nonprofit is suing several state and county officials in Pennsylvania in order to ensure certain voters are removed from registration lists.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has denied a motion to dismiss filed by The Maternal Child Consortium LLC, and Associates Home Care Inc.
LANCASTER – A York law firm is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit by a bank that accused it of legal malpractice after the default of a $7 million loan.
A state appellate court panel late last week rejected a request by a Philadelphia-area attorney to get President Obama kicked off the April primary election ballot.