Case Title: In Re: Chris McDaniel

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State: mississippi

Court: Mississippi Supreme Court

Date: 2014-07-24T00:00:00Z

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Serial: 192753
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI
No. 2014-M-00967
IN RE: CHRIS MCDANIEL
Petitioner
EN BANC ORDER
Before the Court, En Banc, is the Petitioner’s Motion for Reconsideration, Hearing
and Clarification filed on behalf of Chris McDaniel and the Response to Motion for
Reconsideration, Hearing and Clarification filed on behalf of Gayle K. Parker, Harrison
County Circuit Clerk. 
McDaniel requests the Court reconsider its July 17, 2014, order, which denied his
Emergency Petition for Writ of Mandamus, and allow a hearing on the motion. After due
consideration, we find that the motion is not well taken and should be denied.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Petitioner’s Motion for Reconsideration,
Hearing and Clarification filed on behalf of Chris McDaniel is hereby denied.
SO ORDERED, this the 24  day of July, 2014.
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/s/ Josiah Dennis Coleman
JOSIAH DENNIS COLEMAN, JUSTICE
FOR THE COURT
RANDOLPH, P.J., KITCHENS AND CHANDLER, JJ., MAKE THE
FOLLOWING STATEMENT:
I would grant Chris McDaniel’s motion for a Rule 33 hearing. Assuring the integrity
of the electoral process is a matter of the highest priority and implicates the fundamental
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rights of all Mississippians. McDaniel’s Emergency Petition for Writ of Mandamus raises
serious issues pertaining to all candidates’ ability to access information vital to determining
the integrity of elections. These issues deserve the full and focused attention of this Court in
a conference pursuant to Rule 33 of the Mississippi Rules of Appellate Procedure. 
DICKINSON, P.J., AND PIERCE, J., NOT PARTICIPATING.