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United States v. City of Hazleton

3:25-cv-00045 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 7, 2025

Closed Date: April 22, 2025

This lawsuit challenged the City of Hazleton’s election system on the grounds that it violated the Voting Rights Act. On January 7, 2025, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The DOJ sued the City of Hazleton, the Hazleton City Council, and Mayor Jeff Cusat under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Represented by the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, the plaintiffs sought declaratory and injuncti…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fair Maps Texas Action v. Abbott

3:21-cv-00259 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2021

Closed Date: March 24, 2025

This case is about Texas’s redistricting plans for the Texas House (House Plan 2316), Texas Senate (Senate Plan 2168), and for the U.S. House of Representatives (Congressional Plan 2193) following the 2020 census. On November 16, 2021, Fair Maps Texas Action Committee, a committee of seven nonprofits supporting equitable redistricting, as well as several other civil rights organizations and individual Texas voters, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

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Equality State Policy Center v. Wyoming Secretary of State

1:25-cv-00117 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: May 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged a Wyoming state law, HB 156, which imposed new documentary proof of citizenship requirements that allegedly made it harder for eligible citizens to vote. A similar law passed by Kansas in 2011 saw roughly 1 in 8 people excluded from voter registration, despite nearly all of them being citizens; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit struck down that law as unconstitutional. Plaintiff alleged the state of Wyoming imposed an undue burden on the right to vote and that…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Page

8:25-cv-01370 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged Orange County, California's partial redaction of voter registration records in response to an inquiry by the U.S. government. On June 25, 2025, the United States Department of Justice filed this lawsuit against the Registrar of Voters for Orange County, California in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The DOJ alleged that defendant undermined Orange County's elections by "(1) refusing transparency of its voter information, in violation of federa…

Case Is Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. North Carolina State Board of Elections

5:25-cv-00283 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: May 27, 2025

Case Ongoing

In this case, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the second Trump Administration filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, alleging violations of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). This act requires states that maintain centralized voter registration databases to keep accurate lists of registered voters. To successfully register to vote, an applicant must provide either a driver's license number, the last four digits of their social securit…

Case Is Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Driver v. Houston County Board of Elections

5:25-cv-00025 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 16, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged Houston County, Georgia's method of electing its Board of Commissioners. On January 16, 2025, the United States of America filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia against Houston County and several members of the Houston County Board of Commissioners. Plaintiff alleged that defendants violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), 52 U.S.C. §§ 10301, by using a method to elect the Board of Commissioners that diluted the voting stren…

Case Is Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Pascua Yaqui Tribe v. Rodriguez

4:20-cv-00432 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2020

Closed Date: July 7, 2021

This case is about the Pima County Recorder’s failure to re-establish an in-person early voting location on the Pascua Yaqui Pueblo Reservation ahead of the 2020 general election. On October 12, 2020, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (Tucson). The Tribe sued the Pima County Recorder under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The Tribe alleged that refusing to reinstate an early voting site on…

Settled: Case Closed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Lacy v. Federal Election Commission

1:25-cv-01808 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) October 2024 dismissal of an administrative complaint which alleged that National Public Radio (NPR) violated the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA). Specifically, the complaint claimed that NPR unlawfully made in-kind contributions to, and failed to disclose independent expenditures made to, the 2024 presidential campaigns of President Biden and Vice President Harris. NPR, as a news organization, is exempt from many of FECA…

Case Is Ongoing

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Grimes v. Florida Department of State

2020-CA-000908 | Florida state trial court

Filed Date: May 12, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 13, 2020

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 09/01/2020, A trio of voters have asked a state court to order Florida officials to send mail-in ballots to all registered voters both for the state's Aug. 11 primary and the November general election. A retired police captain who helps the elderly, an Ocala minister and a Miami man confined to his home have banded togethe…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

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Democratic National Committee v. Donald J. Trump

1:25-cv-00587 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case concerned the balance of power in federal election law enforcement and the independence of the Federal Election Commission ("FEC"). Filed on February 28, 2025 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the lawsuit challenged the Trump Administration's Executive Order 14215, which purported to preclude the Commissioners and other FEC employees from advancing any legal positions other than those of the President and Attorney General in the course of their enforcement of th…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)