Days & Times
11 a.m. PDT/Noon MDT/1 p.m. CDT/2 p.m. EDT. 60 minutes.
Course Location
Online
Election Cases: The Evidence
Demands for election-related evidence that may show up at your bench may be a little different and may require considerations unique to the election law context. This webinar prepares you to consider the constitutional restrictions on evidentiary issues, standing, and the speed and content of discovery in the civil context (including discovery from officials) and criminal context (including criminal warrants and grand jury subpoenas) for election materials.
Professor Justin Levitt (LMU Loyola School of Law) has worked for 25 years on the election system, including service at the Department of Justice and in the White House, and in addition to his scholarship, has offered testimony and guidance for federal and state legislative, executive, and judicial bodies.
During this course, you will learn to:
- Identify key election administration deadlines that state law commonly imposes, by understanding the timing and cadence of election processes and how disruptions at one stage can affect later stages
- Apply procedural tools for managing election disputes under compressed timelines, while accommodating the practical demands of election administration.
- Identify constitutional and practical limitations on using court process to secure evidence in elections disputes.
- Question counsel to weigh access to direct or circumstantial evidence in election cases.
- Adjudicate evidentiary issues on an abbreviated schedule.
- Evaluate, in a time-constrained election case, equitable considerations related to laches, unclean hands, and to the overarching commitments in the field of election law that motivate the development of these doctrines.
Election Cases: The Evidence
Demands for election-related evidence that may show up at your bench may be a little different and may require considerations unique to the election law context. This webinar prepares you to consider the constitutional restrictions on evidentiary issues, standing, and the speed and content of discovery in the civil context (including discovery from officials) and criminal context (including criminal warrants and grand jury subpoenas) for election materials.
Professor Justin Levitt (LMU Loyola School of Law) has worked for 25 years on the election system, including service at the Department of Justice and in the White House, and in addition to his scholarship, has offered testimony and guidance for federal and state legislative, executive, and judicial bodies.