Vasquez v. Housing Authority of El Paso (3:00-cv-89) and De la O v. Housing Authority of El Paso (3:02-cv-456) (David Briones, W.D. Tex.)
Successive federal complaints challenged proscriptions on door-to-door campaigning in housing projects. The district judge found the campaign restrictions reasonable as part of viewpoint-neutral regulations that protect housing projects from criminal activity. A panel of the court of appeals held the proscriptions to be unconstitutional, but the full court voted to rehear the appeal en banc. The second case was filed because the first appeal was dismissed when the appellant died. A second panel of the court of appeals agreed with the district judge that the proscriptions were reasonable.
Subject: Campaign activities. Topics: Door-to-door canvassing; case assignment.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.