Court Opinion

ID: 9472495
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 04:02:33.938096+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:58.777538
License: Public Domain

* ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
On petition for rehearing, appellant has raised two issues which merit attention. The first is that since the Libertarian’s ballot petitions were introduced as an exhibit, there was a basis on which the trial court and this court could have found a causal nexus between the voter registration number requirement and the Libertarian’s failure to gather the required number of signatures. The Libertarian’s own witnesses declined to estimate the number of signatures on the petitions. The burden is on the litigating party to put its evidence in a form the court can reasonably use.
The second point raised is that the court did not rule on the rights of the Libertarian-affiliated school trustees to remain in office. This claim was not ruled on by the trial court when it denied the preliminary injunction and therefore is still before the district court.
The application for rehearing is therefore DENIED.