Putter v. Montpelier Public School System

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• discussing as fatal flaw plaintiff’s failure to allege that voters changed their vote due to reading school board newsletter that took positions on upcoming election
• “Voiding an election and ordering a new one represents one of the more extreme remedial measures available to a court. . . . Nothing is so profoundly destabilizing to the local political process . . . .”
• this Court may affirm correct judgment even though grounds stated in support of it are erroneous
• “The United States Constitution protects the rights of all qualified citizens to vote in state and federal elections … and to have their votes counted without debasement or dilution.” (citation omitted)
• we may affirm correct judgment even though grounds for it are erroneous

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