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State (Ne) owes $275,000 to ACLU
http://www.omaha.com/article/20120213/NEWS01/702139925#state-owes-275-000-to-aclu
LINCOLN — A federal lawsuit that overturned Nebraska's ban on out-of-state petition circulators will cost the state $275,000 in attorney fees and court expenses, under a settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU won a legal challenge last year against several Nebraska laws that required petition circulators to be state residents. U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon ruled in August that the ban unfairly infringed on the petition circulators' constitutional rights and made it harder to conduct petition drives.
Elora Mukherjee, the lead ACLU attorney on the case, said the settlement will cover the cost of representing plaintiffs in the lawsuit who could not afford to bring the case on their own.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the nonprofit Citizens in Charge Foundation Inc., which advocates for more direct democracy, along with Nebraska political activists Michael Groene of North Platte and Donald Sluti of Kearney.
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