Us Supreme Court Court December 2000 Judgments
Bush Vs. Gore
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Dec-11-2000
Bush v. Gore - 531 U.S. 98 (2000) OCTOBER TERM, 2000 Syllabus BUSH ET AL. v. GORE ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA No. 00-949. Argued December 11, 2000-Decided December 12,2000 On December 8, 2000, the Florida Supreme Court ordered, inter alia, that manual recounts of ballots for the recent Presidential election were required in all Florida counties where so-called "undervotes" had not been subject to manual tabulation, and that the manual recounts should begin at once. Noting the closeness of the election, the court explained that, on the record before it, there could be no question that there were uncounted "legal votes"-i. e., those in which there was a clear indication of the voter's intent-sufficient to place the results of the election in doubt. Petitioners, the Republican candidates for President and Vice President who had been certified as the winners in Florida, filed an emergency application for a stay of this mandate. On December 9, this Court g...
Tag this Judgment!Bush Vs. Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Dec-04-2000
Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. - 531 U.S. 70 (2000) OCTOBER TERM, 2000 Syllabus BUSH v. PALM BEACH COUNTY CANVASSING BOARD ETAL. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA No. 00-836. Argued December 1, 2000-Decided December 4, 2000 The day after the November 7, 2000, Presidential election, the Florida Division of Elections reported that petitioner, Governor George W. Bush, had received 1,784 more votes than respondent Vice President Albert Gore, Jr. Under the Florida Election Code, an automatic machine recount occurred, resulting in a much smaller margin of victory for Bush. Gore then exercised his statutory right to submit written requests for manual recounts to the canvassing boards of four Florida counties, see Fla. Stat. 102.166, and subsequently joined in this suit to require manual recounts and the certification of the recount results. Among other things, the Florida Circuit Court held that 102.111's 7-day recount deadline was mandatory, but that the Volusia...
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