Case: 1:20-cv-02189 Document #: 29 Filed: 04/28/20 Page 1 of 5 PageID #:236
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
WILLIAM MORGAN, ELIZABETH ) NORDEN, DAVID VAUGHT, DORIS ) CASE NO. 1:20-cv-02189 DAVENPORT, ANDREA RAILA, ) JACKSON PALLER, and the ) COMMITTEE FOR THE ILLINOIS ) DEMOCRACY AMENDMENT, an ) unincorporated political association, ) Emergency Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer ) Plaintiffs, ) ) Honorable Judge Charles R. Norgle, Sr. JESSE WHITE, in his official capacity ) as Illinois Secretary of State, DEVON ) Magistrate Judge M. David Weisman REID, in his official capacity as the ) Evanston City Clerk, KAREN A. ) YARBROUGH, in her official capacity ) as Cook County Clerk, and WILLIAM ) J. CADIGAN, KATHERINE S. O’BRIEN,) LAURA K. DONAHUE, CASSANDRA ) B. WATSON, WILLIAM R. HAINE, ) IAN K. LINNABARY, CHARLES W. ) SCHOLZ, WILLIAM M. MCGUFFAGE, ) in their official capacities as Board ) Members for the Illinois State Board of ) Elections, ) ) Defendants. )
EMERGENCY MOTION TO RECONSIDER IN LIGHT OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND TO CORRECT THE RECORD
NOW COME Plaintiffs, William Morgan et al., and move this Court to reconsider its
April 17, 2020 ruling in light of new developments and to correct the record before the
Court. In support of this Motion, the Plaintiffs state as follows: Case: 1:20-cv-02189 Document #: 29 Filed: 04/28/20 Page 2 of 5 PageID #:237
1. On April 7, 2020, the Plaintiffs filed this present suit seeking “to enjoin or modify
Illinois petition collection requirements for initiative referendums to be placed on the
November 3, 2020 general election ballot . . . in light of the current public health emergency caused by the novel coronavirus and the Governor’s shelter-in-place emergency orders.” Dkt.
001. )(emphasis added).
2. On April 9, 2020, Plaintiffs filed an emergency motion for preliminary injunction which was heard before Judge Pallmeyer on April 17, 2020.
3. On April 17, 2020, Judge Pallmeyer held a telephonic hearing during which she denied Plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction largely on the basis of a misunderstanding concerning the argument Plaintiffs were making, discussed further below.
4. Subsequent to the Court’s ruling, the Plaintiffs and the State Defendants engaged in multiple rounds of settlement negotiations which ultimately failed to resolve this matter.
5. The State still continues to require the Plaintiffs to physically deliver their petition in paper form, has refused to extend the May 3, 2020 deadline, and has further refused to agree to any signature reduction.
6. The State’s requirements are impossible to comply with, and more so now that the Governor has extended the stay-at-home orders to May 30, 2020. Indeed, the
Secretary of State’s office, to which hundreds of thousands of pages must be delivered,
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is not even open to the public during the pendency of the stay-at-home order. And even if the office were open, the Plaintiffs would be required to violate the stay-at-home and social distancing rules in order to show up to the office with hundreds of thousands of paper pages and put State personnel at risk from physical contact and from handling hundreds of thousands of paper pages.
7. The Governor’s extension of the stay-at-home order through May 30, 2020 is a new and relevant factual development that requires this Court’s immediate attention as
Plaintiffs have no means to comply with the State’s election requirements.
8. Moreover, the only relief Plaintiffs seek simply mirrors the relief recently granted to candidates in Libertarian Party of Illinois et. al., v. Pritzker et. al., Case No 2-cv-2112.
Indeed, the traditional procedure in existing Illinois election law for collecting initiative petition signatures is identical to, and indistinguishable from, the traditional procedure for collecting candidate petition signatures which was modified in the Libertarian Party case.
9. In addition, Plaintiffs need to correct the record concerning the April 17, 2020 hearing. The Plaintiffs’ argument is, and always has been, that the election laws they are seeking to modify are unconstitutional only under the present circumstances. This is clear from page one of the Plaintiffs’ Verified Complaint and throughout their subsequent briefings. Plaintiffs do not, and have not, challenged the constitutionality of the State’s elections laws on their face, or as they existed before the pandemic.
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10. During the April 17, 2020, Judge Pallmeyer and attorney John Mauck discussed the constitutionality of the challenged restrictions and whether they were also unconstitutional one year ago. Attorney Mauck misunderstood the line of questioning and misspoke concerning the Plaintiffs’ position in this case. Nothing submitted to the court has argued that the challenged election restrictions were illegal one year ago.
11. This confusion is apparent in the transcript of the proceedings. Attorney Mauck, for instance, began his comments by noting that the election requirements were unconstitutional “as applied.” Exhibit A, Transcript at p. 16. Likewise, the Court correctly recognized that the argument that Governor Pat Quinn was making was that the Plaintiffs were challenging the election requirements only in light of the pandemic.
Id. at p. 18. Attorney Mauck can clarify his comments should the Court desire.
12. Plaintiffs here should not be denied their constitutional rights on the basis of a misunderstanding during a telephonic hearing.
13. In light of new developments such as the extension of the Governor’s executive order through May 30, 2020 and the misunderstanding during the April 17, 2020 hearing, the Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Court reconsider its ruling denying
Plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction.
WHEREFORE, the Plaintiffs respectfully request relief as set forth in Exhibit B attached to this motion.
Dated: April 28, 2020
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Respectfully submitted,
/s/ WILLIAM MORGAN, ET AL.,
John Mauck Sorin A. Leahu Mauck & Baker, LLC 1 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 600 Chicago, IL 60602 312-726-1243 [email protected] [email protected]
Pat Quinn 216 N. Jefferson #200 Chicago, IL 60661 312-485-1852 [email protected]
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
WILLIAM MORGAN, ELIZABETH ) NORDEN, DAVID VAUGHT, DORIS ) CASE NO. 1:20-cv-02189 DAVENPORT, ANDREA RAILA, ) JACKSON PALLER, and the ) COMMITTEE FOR THE ILLINOIS ) DEMOCRACY AMENDMENT, an ) unincorporated political association, ) Emergency Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer ) Plaintiffs, ) ) Honorable Judge Charles R. Norgle, Sr. JESSE WHITE, in his official capacity ) as Illinois Secretary of State, DEVON ) Magistrate Judge M. David Weisman REID, in his official capacity as the ) Evanston City Clerk, KAREN A. ) YARBROUGH, in her official capacity ) as Cook County Clerk, and WILLIAM ) J. CADIGAN, KATHERINE S. O’BRIEN,) LAURA K. DONAHUE, CASSANDRA ) B. WATSON, WILLIAM R. HAINE, ) IAN K. LINNABARY, CHARLES W. ) SCHOLZ, WILLIAM M. MCGUFFAGE, ) in their official capacities as Board ) Members for the Illinois State Board of ) Elections, ) ) Defendants. )
ORDER
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:
A. Plaintiffs’ Emergency Motion for Reconsideration is granted;
B. The following election requirements shall be modified as follows:
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a. the circulator’s statement requirement and notarization
requirement in 10 ILCS 5/28-3 is enjoined;
b. the requirement in 10 ICLS 5/28-3 that the petition sheets filed with
the Secretary of State be originals is enjoined; and
c. the petition signers shall be allowed to electronically sign their
signatures.
C. The May 3, 2020 deadline for an Article XIV, Section 3 referendum shall be extended to August 3, 2020 and the signature requirements shall be reduced by 50%.
D. The Court shall retain jurisdiction to enforce this order.
Respectfully submitted this 28th day of April, 2020.
ENTERED:
______Hon. Judge Pallmeyer
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