New Hampshire: judge dismisses 5 of 8 claims in Democrats' phone-jamming suit
AP reports: A judge has dismissed most of a Democratic lawsuit against Republicans stemming from the jamming of Democratic phone lines in the November 2002 elections.
State Democratic Chairwoman Kathy Sullivan said Thursday a judge in Manchester dismissed five of eight claims Democrats had made in the civil lawsuit.
Both parties called the decision a victory. ...
The five dismissed counts dealt with conspiring against constitutional rights to vote and associate, civil conspiracy, civil harassment and conspiracy to commit civil harassment. ...
The scheme jammed get-out-the-vote and ride-to-the-polls phone banks run by Democrats and the nonpartisan Manchester firefighters union for over an hour on Election Day 2002, during a hotly contested U.S. Senate race between then-Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican John Sununu, who won. -- Judge dismisses most of Democrats' phone-jamming lawsuit - Boston.com