Legal Opinion
Nader v. the Democratic Nat. Committee
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided May 27, 2008No. Civil Action 07-2136 (RMU)PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Granting the Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss
RICARDO M. URBINA, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
In 2000, Ralph Nader campaigned for the presidency of the United States and earned over 2.8 million votes, 2.74 percent of all votes cast. In 2004, he again threw his hat in the ring, this time garnering only 465,650 votes, a sliver more than one-third of one percent of the total vote and less than one-fifth of the amount he collected in 2000. 1 Rather than attributing his poor showing to public disenchantment with independent candidates following the closely divided 2000 presidential…
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Connecticut v. American Elec. Power Co., Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2009
- Nader v. Democratic National CommitteeCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2009
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- Caldwell v. PesceDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2015
- Nader v. Democratic National CommitteeDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2008
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