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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Garza v. County of Los Angeles

88-cv-05143 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

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Johnson v. DeGrandy

4:92-cv-40015 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 1992

Closed Date: 1994

On January 14, 1992, a member of the Florida House of Representatives and other registered voters representing African-American and Hispanic voters, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiffs sued the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, the President of the Florida Senate, the Governor of Florida, and other state officials for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. T…
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Remmers v. Yoshina

1:02-cv-00451 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: July 22, 2002

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2004

On July 22, 2002, a former pretrial detainee at Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) who was denied his constitutional right to vote in the November 2000 election filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. The Clearinghouse was unable to access documents from the court, but was able to gather the following information based on an August 15, 2005 notice published in Prison Legal News and a 2004 ACLU of Hawaii Litigation report. The plaintiff sued the state chi…
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ACORN v. Edgar

1:95-cv-00174 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 1995

Closed Date: 1995

On January 11, 1995, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Equip for Equality, and several individual plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the State of Illinois in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, asking the court to compel the defendants to enforce the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), 42 U.S.C. Section 1973gg, et seq., usually known as the Motor Voter law. The defendants counterargued that the law in question was unconsti…
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Fletcher v. Golder

4:91-cv-02314 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 1991

Closed Date: 1992

On Novermber 12, 1991, residents and registered voters of St. Louis County filed a lawsuit against the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division. Plaintiffs, represented by private council, asked the court for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging failure on the part of the Election Commissioners to reapportion St. Louis County voting districts in complia…
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U.S.A. v. Bd of Elec. Commn. for St. Louis City

4:02-cv-01235 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2002

Closed Date: 2005

On August 14, 2002, the U.S. Justice Department filed suit against the St. Louis City Board of Election Commissioners in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of the State of Missouri alleging that the requirements with respect to voter registration enacted by the Board during the November 7, 2000 National Election violated the Voting Rights Act. The suit was based on the claims that the Board of Elections unjustly placed thousands of active voters on inactive status and thu…
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Hayden v. Pataki

1:00-cv-08586 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2000

Closed Date: 2006

On November 9, 2000, Plaintiffs filed this class action against the State of New York and its State Board of Elections in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Plaintiffs, Black and Latino individuals who had been convicted of felonies under the laws of the state of New York and were incarcerated in the New York prison system or on parole, claimed that pursuant to New York Election Law § 5-106(2), they were not permitted to vote in state or federal elections, i…
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NAACP Philadelphia v. Ridge

2:00-cv-02855 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 7, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 5, 2001

On June 7, 2000 plaintiffs, three formerly incarcerated residents of Pennsylvania denied the right to vote filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and City of Philadelphia arguing that the Pennsylvania Voter Registration Act (PVRA) was unconstitutional in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The complaint sought injunctive and declaratory relief, and the plaintiffs were represented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored …
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Emery v. Hunt

3:00-cv-03008 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2003

On February 14, 2000, Native American registered voters and residents of Dewey County, in District 28 of the South Dakota legislature, filed a lawsuit against South Dakota in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, Central Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the dissolution of two special legislative districts in 1996 violated 42 U.S.C. §1973. Specifi…
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U.S.A. v. South Dakota

3:00-cv-03015 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 28, 2000

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2002

This is a case about the protection of the voting rights of Native Americans in state legislature elections.  South Dakota has 35 legislative districts, each of which elects one senator and two representatives.  Before the 1990 census, the two representatives were elected at large to represent the entire legislative district.  The legislature redistricted in 1991 "in order to protect minority voting rights”: District 28 in the north central part of the state was split into two single-member Hou…