Legal Opinion
Dobson v. Dunlap
District Court, D. Maine
Decided September 16, 2008No. CV-08-292-B-WPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON PLAINTIFFS’ EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
JOHN A. WOODCOCK, JR., District Judge.
There is no constitutional right to procrastinate. Laurie Dobson, an independent candidate for United States Senate, waited until the last moment to deliver her nomination petitions to the municipal registrars in the state of Maine and when they failed to promptly certify all of her petitions, she failed to meet the statutory deadline to file 4,000 certified voter signatures with the Secretary of State. As a result, her name will not appear on the state’s…
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