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Texas’ chief elections administrator claims sovereign immunity bars the two lawsuits against her taking aim at the state’s voter registration and early voting rules.
A sign is seen at a drive-through ballot drop off location in Austin, Texas, last October. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
(CN) Texas’ secretary of state asked a Fifth Circuit panel Thursday to dismiss two voting rights lawsuits from the Texas Democratic Party, one challenging voter registration rules and the other a law Democrats say was passed to disenfranchise left-leaning college students by placing restrictions on temporary polling places.
Days before the state’s voter registration deadline for the 2018 midterm elections, then-Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos issued a press release telling voters online registration is not allowed in Texas, and advising counties applications submitted through a cellphone app created by the advocacy group Vote.org were not complete because they conta
Like David and Goliath fighting over a mayonnaise-ketchup blend, the small-business owner of a nine-room Star Motel in Lacombe, Louisiana can’t sue behemoth Kraft Heinz for selling a comparable condiment, said the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Kraft Heinz âMayochupâ dispute revived by U.S. appeals court By Syndicated Content
By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court said a man who created a mayonnaise-ketchup blend he called Metchup cannot sue Kraft Heinz Co for selling a similar condiment called Mayochup, but ordered reconsideration of whether to cancel his trademark registration.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said there was little chance consumers would confuse Mayochup, sold in groceries nationwide under the Heinz brand, with Metchup, sold in the lobby of Dennis Perry s nine-room Star Motel in Lacombe, Louisiana, next to his used-car lot.