Supreme Court of Connecticut
Fay v. Merrill
February 11, 2021338 Conn. 1
Summary
The court held that the plaintiff-candidates had standing to challenge the expansion of absentee voting because their candidacies gave them a personal interest distinct from that of ordinary voters. It declined to decide the laches defense because the issue was fact intensive and had not been developed below, and it dismissed the separation-of-powers claim as moot after legislative ratification of the executive order. On the merits, the court held that the constitutional term "sickness" encompasses the COVID-19 pandemic and therefore upheld the executive order's absentee-voting provision.