Municipality of Anchorage v. Citizens for Representative Governance

How courts have described this case

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• “When a group does not reveal the identity of its members, a court may not be able to determine the group’s public interest status.”
• while salary is usually sufficient incentive to prompt suit, normal compensation of elective office does not bar public interest status, due to “strong public interest in fair and honest elections”
• organization opposing recall sued to block recall election and organization supporting recall intervened
• unincorporated association suing to preclude a school board recall was public interest litigant because the small stipend received by school board members belonging to the association was not sufficient economic incentive to preclude public-interest-litigant status
• \'Public interest litigants must file and pursue their suit in good faith.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).