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Sixth Circuit· 10/28/2016

Joel Crookston v. Ruth Johnson

Citations

  • 841 F.3d 396
  • 2016 FED App. 0266P
  • 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 19494
  • 2016 WL 6311623

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  • identifying the “first and most essential” reason to issue a stay of an election-related injunction is plaintiff offering “no reasonable explanation for waiting so long to file this action”
  • identifying the “first and most essential” reason to issue a stay of an election-related injunction as plaintiff offering “no reasonable explanation for waiting so long to file this action.”
  • “Call it what you will—laches, the Purcell principle, or common sense—the idea is that courts will not disrupt imminent elections absent a powerful reason for doing so.”
  • “Call it what you will—laches, the Purcell principle, or common sense—the idea is that courts will not disrupt imminent elections absent a powerful reason for doing so.”
  • “Call it what you will— laches, the Purcell principle, or common sense—the idea is that courts will not disrupt imminent elections absent a powerful reason for doing so.”
  • “Call it what you will — laches, the Purcell principle, or common sense — the idea is that courts will not disrupt imminent elections absent a powerful reason for doing so.”

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Judges: Cole, Guy, Sutton

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