Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case Over Now-Defunct Voter Data Collection Program

Mealey's (January 8, 2019, 1:19 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A privacy rights organization saw its bid to vacate the dismissal of its lawsuit over voter data collection by a now-dissolved government committee denied Jan. 7, as the U.S. Supreme Court denied the group’s petition for certiorari, declining to consider whether the case’s moot status merited vacatur of the dismissal ruling (Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, et al., No. 18-267, U.S. Sup., 2019 U.S. LEXIS 204)....