Scope and Contents From the File: The ACLU, along with the NAACP, filed an amicus brief on behalf of the defendants in the case against Louis Haddad, a recalled City Councilman in Seaside, California. Haddad "asserts various courses of action against large numbers of people concerning alleged irregularities and statements made during the course of the recall election." One of these such actions involved "either doing, conspiring to do, or concealing acts of circulating recall petitions before legally permissable," changing...