Yes on Term Limits v. Savage
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Yes on Term Limits v. Savage (shortened YOTL v. Savage), 550 F.3d 1023 (10th Cir. 2008), is a case in which challenged Oklahoma's residency requirements for petition circulators. In 2007, the organization Oklahoma Yes on Term Limits filed a federal lawsuit against Oklahoma Secretary of State Susan Savage on First Amendment grounds. At the time, Oklahoma required petition circulators to be a state resident which it argued was "narrowly tailored" to uphold the integrity of the petitioning process in the state.
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Yes on Term Limits v. Savage | |
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Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit |
Full case name | Yes on Term Limits, Inc., et al. v. M. Susan Savage, individually and in her official capacity as Oklahoma Secretary of State, et al. |
Decided | December 18, 2008 |
Citation(s) | 550 F.3d 1023 |
Case history | |
Prior history | No. 5:07-cv-00680, 2007 WL 2670178 (W.D. Okla. Sept. 7, 2007) |
Court membership | |
Judge(s) sitting | Michael R. Murphy, Monroe G. McKay, Michael W. McConnell |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Murphy, joined by unanimous |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const., amend. I |
Judge Tim Leonard of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma initially ruled in favor of the state of Oklahoma, but this decision was appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. On December 18, 2008, a three-judge panel unanimously decided the case in favor of Oklahoma Yes on Term Limits while citing violations of the First Amendment and ruling that Oklahoma's law was not narrowly tailored.
While Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson stated his intent to appeal the decision further, the Tenth Circuit denied his request to rehear the case. As a result, a day later Edmondson's office announced on January 22, 2009 that it would drop the charges against Paul Jacob, Susan Johnson and Rick Carpenter who were prosecuted under the challenged law.