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Supreme Court throws out lawsuit on English only election documents

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May 9th, 2025 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling from a group seeking to allow the printing of election documents in languages other than English. Radio Iowa’s Dar Danielson reports.

(As said) The League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, argued the law hampered its voter registration efforts and forced it to spend additional money and resources. The Iowa Supreme Court ruling says an organization’s expenditure of resources in response to a law that does not violate, regulate, or determine the litigant’s rights, status, or legal relations is not a legally recognizable injury. The Court says, for that reason, the group lacks standing to bring the lawsuit.