Iowa Supreme Court allows secretary of state to publish voting materials in English only

Iowa Supreme Court overturns ruling, blocks non-English voting materials

DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Iowa Supreme Court ruled against the League of United Latin American Citizens and overturned a district ruling allowing non-English voting materials. The 2002 "English-only" law requires all official documents to be in English unless necessary to maintain a person's Constitutional rights. In 2008, a district court ruled this applied to election materials, like ballots, and placed a permanent injunction barring the state f…

Iowa Supreme Court to allow voting materials to be printed only in English

Nearly all voting documents must be in English, and no other language. That's according to an Iowa Supreme Court ruling on Friday, overruling a district court decision from 2023.

Supreme Court throws out lawsuit over English only election documents - 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. 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 […]

Iowa Supreme Court rejects LULAC's lawsuit over English-only voting materials • Iowa Capital Dispatch

(Main photo by simpson33 via iStock / Getty Images Plus; seal courtesy State of Iowa)The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a district court decision that cleared the way for election officials to distribute voter materials in languages other than English. Without directly addressing the merits of Iowa’s law restricting the dissemination of government records in languages other than English, the court found that the League of United Latin American …

Iowa Supreme Court allows secretary of state to publish voting materials in English only

The Iowa Supreme Court says LULAC lacks standing to sue over a law that prevents the state from publishing voting materials in languages other than English.