A ruling by the Student Association Supreme Court has prevented one Board of Elections member from participating during today’s continued elections.

Jeff Meyer, a member of the board meant to impartially oversee the four elections concluding today, received the news after a hearing Tuesday night at Riley Courtroom in Swen Parson Hall.

SA presidential candidate Troy Caldwell brought the case after Meyer removed three of his campaign signs Monday morning. Meyer contended that the painted wooden signs were not stamped by University Programming & Activities and thus were subject to confiscation.

Later Monday, UP&A referred the case to NIU grounds employees, who approved of the signs’ placement throughout campus. Meyer said he still believed the signs were subject to the elections policy and refused to return them.

Caldwell’s representative, Chris Spitzzeri, said the removal cost Caldwell and his ticket potential visibility and was a sign of Meyer’s bias against Caldwell.

“No action, at this point, can undo the damage done,” Spitzzeri said, later alleging that something like the sign incident “could happen again.”

The ruling by the four justices hearing the case prevents Meyer from performing any of his board duties until 6 p.m. April 4. Some of those duties include issuing campaign sanctions or even removing a candidate from the ballot. The injunction also prevents Meyer from acting during a potential run-off election next week.

After the announcement, Meyer told the remaining justices that while he was not removed officially, the action eliminates any chance for him to serve his duties for the remainder of the election.

While Spitzzeri argued that Meyer’s removal would keep him from acting partially, Meyer, in his defense, attempted to show that Monday’s sign removal was consistent with his previous election actions. As evidence, he submitted fliers from the campaigns of presidential candidates Ken Getty and Will Reilly that he had confiscated for improper stamping.

“I was simply doing the same here as I did before,” Meyer argued.

The hearing was dominated by numerous questions from the justices to each side. Justice Richard Foreman asked why Meyer would act so quickly in taking the signs without asking for advice, while justice Matt Beese asked whether the case was affected by previous heated discussions between Meyer and Caldwell during a Supreme Court case earlier this month.

That case saw Meyer asking for more time in preparing the board’s arguments during the short time in which Caldwell was removed from the presidential ballot for improperly filed petitions. Caldwell declined, drawing Meyer’s ire. The court eventually reinstated Caldwell, ruling that the charge against him was filed too late.