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NAACP v. Lee

3:20-cv-01039 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

The following was a case that challenged Tennessee’s voting rights restoration process for those convicted of felonies. On December 3, 2020, this class action suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. It challenged the state's statutory scheme for restoring the voting rights of people with felony convictions. The plaintiffs included the NAACP and several individuals who had been convicted of felonies. Defendants included Tennessee’s governor, the Commission…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. Trump

1:21-cv-00400 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the violent insurrection and disruption of Congress on January 6, 2021, while Congress approved the results of the Electoral College in order to elect the next President and Vice President of the United States. On February 16, 2021, a member of the United States House of Representatives, in his personal capacity, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Represented by private counsel and the NAACP, the plaintiff sued the President…
POLICING
Smith v. City of Philadelphia

2:20-cv-03431 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: July 14, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Philadelphia Police Department's (PPD) use of force against peaceful protesters during the summer 2020 racial justice protests that followed the murder of George Floyd.  On July 14, 2020, residents of a predominantly Black neighborhood in West Philadelphia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the city of Philadelphia, its police department, and several John Doe police officers under 42 U.S.C…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Fayette County Board of Commissioners

3:11-cv-00123 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2016

This is a case about the whether at-large election methods violated the Voting Rights Act. In an at-large voting system, members of a governing body are elected by majority vote to represent an entire population, rather than a subset of that population as in a district voting system. In Fayette County, Georgia, members of the Board of Commissioners and Board of Education were elected using an at-large method, with the effect of diluting the strength of a subset of the county: Black voters who l…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Pernell v. Florida Board of Governors of the State University System

4:22-cv-00304 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2022

Case Ongoing

A group of Florida educators and students, including a constitutional law professor and several professors of race and gender studies, filed this complaint against Florida and various Boards of Governors, trustees, and commissioners of Florida public colleges and universities. Plaintiffs filed suit on August 18, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, and were represented by the ACLU, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and a private la…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
B. v. Kinsley

1:22-cv-01046 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2022

Case Ongoing

On December 6, 2022, Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC), the NAACP, and Children's Rights filed suit on behalf of a class of North Carolina youth in foster care with mental and behavioral health. Plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina against the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The Plaintiffs asserted that Defendants actions violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilita…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gomillion v. Lightfoot

57-cv-00462 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1957

Closed Date: Feb. 17, 1961

This case challenged an Alabama law, Act 140, that redrew Tuskegee’s borders, excluding all but five of the city’s black voters. Prior to this law, activists were making a concerted effort to register more black voters in the city. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal courts had authority to hear this claim despite municipal boundaries traditionally being exclusively under state control. Following World War II, the number of black registered voters in Tuskegee surged. This was i…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Sixth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church v. Kemp

1:21-cv-01284 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 29, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case was part of a challenge to Georgia Senate Bill 202 (“SB 202”) which was signed into law in March 2021. SB 202 implemented numerous new voting restrictions including a ban on aiding voters in line and restrictions on absentee voting. The case was ultimately consolidated within In Re Georgia Senate Bill 202 (1:21-mi-55555-JPB) alongside seven other cases challenging the same law. In particular these cases focus on SB 202’s effect on people of color and voters with disabilities. On March…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Greater Birmingham Ministries v. State of Alabama

2:15-cv-02193 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2018

This case is about Alabama House Bill 19 ("HB 19"). HB 19 required voters to present photographic identification in order to vote, with exceptions that include if an election worker could "positively identify" a potential voter. While the bill passed in 2011, the law did not take effect until 2014. On December 2nd, 2015, the Alabama chapter of the NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the State of Alaba…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia NAACP v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-05338 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

Georgia NAACP v. State of Georgia This is a case about protecting the power of voters of color in Georgia. On December 30, 2021, the Georgia NAACP, the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda, Inc. (GCPA) and the Galeo Latino Community Development Fund, Inc. (Galeo) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Appointed to the case was a three-judge panel comprised of District Judges Steven D. Grimberg and Steve C. Jones and Circuit Judge Elizab…