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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights NC v. North Carolina Board of Elections

5:21-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 4, 2022

On September 9, 2021, Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC) (the North Carolina protection and advocacy system) brought suit, as organizational plaintiff, against the North Carolina State Board of Elections to challenge state laws that 1) prohibited voters with disabilities living in congregate settings such as clinics, hospitals, and nursing homes from relying on persons associated with those facilities for assistance with any of the steps required to vote absentee, including requesting, com…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Moore v. Harper (formerly Harper v. Hall)

No. 21-cvs-500085 | North Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina during the 2016, 2020, and 2022 elections.  On September 27, 2019, a group of plaintiffs including individual North Carolinian voters and Common Cause filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections in the Wake County Superior Court. The case was assigned to Judge Paul C. Ridgeway. The plaintiffs challenged the state's 2016 congressional redistricting plan (hereinafter, the “Plan”), alleging it was an unconstitut…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Schmitt v. Husted

2:18-cv-00966 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 2021

This case alleged that Portage County and Ohio state officials acted as "gatekeepers" by having near-total discretion in determining which initiatives were included on Ohio's ballots. On August 28, 2018, three individuals sued the Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted in his official capacity and the Portage County Board of Elections and each of its four members in their official capacities in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, seeking a declaratory judgment, a pre…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. State of California

2:12-cv-01427 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: May 26, 2012

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2014

This is a case alleging that the state of California violated the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act by failing to provide adequate policies for overseas ballots.  This action was brought on May 25, 2012, by the United States Attorney General against the State of California and the California Secretary of State in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California before Judge William B. Shubb. Plaintiff sued the defendants to enforce the Uniformed and Overseas Cit…
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The Democratic Party of Georgia v. Crittenden

1:18-cv-05181 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2019

This case involved allegations that local and state officials improperly rejected certain absentee and provisional ballots. The AFG Group, Stacey Abrams for Governor, and the Democratic Party of Georgia filed suit for declaratory and injunctive relief in the U.S. Northern District of Georgia on November 10, 2018. Defendants included the Secretary of State for the State of Georgia, the Gwinnett County Board of Registration and Elections, the Dekalb County Board of Registration and Elections, and…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
McConchie v. Illinois State Board of Elections

1:21-cv-03091 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 4, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This case is about the redistricting plan passed by the Illinois General Assembly on May 28, 2021 and signed by the Illinois governor on June 4, 2021, as well as the subsequent redistricting plan signed by the Governor of Illinois on September 24, 2021. The Minority Leaders of the Illinois Senate and House of Representatives (“Plaintiffs”) brought this lawsuit on June 9, 2021 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the Illinois State Board of Elections,…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Peterson v. North Carolina State Board of Elections

1:20-cv-00260 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: March 18, 2020

Closed Date: July 23, 2021

  This case involves allegations regarding a 2019 Durham City Council member’s qualifications to run for election. On March 18, 2020, a concerned voter living in Durham County filed this suit pro se in the Middle District of North Carolina against the North Carolina Board of Elections, Durham County Board of Elections, and a Councilmember of the Durham County Board of Elections. Plaintiff sued under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-182.10, which she alleged allowed her to raise concerns regarding election…
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DeSena v. State of Maine

1:11-cv-00117 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: March 28, 2011

Closed Date: March 21, 2012

This is a case alleging malapportioned districts in Maine. Plaintiffs, two individual residents of Congressional District 1 in Maine, filed this action in the United States District Court for the District of Maine on March 28, 2011 alleging that their right to vote was unlawfully diluted in violation of Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution and the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.  Defendants included Maine, its Governor, t…
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Libertarian Party of Ohio v. Brunner

2:08-cv-00555 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 6, 2008

Closed Date: Jan. 25, 2010

This is a case about a third-party candidate's access to the ballot in Ohio.  On June 6, 2008, the Libertarian Party of Ohio (LPO), an alternative political party, its chairman, its candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, one of its candidates for the United States Congress, and one of its candidates for the Ohio legislature filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio alleging that they had been improperly denied access to the Novem…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Contreras v. Illinois State Board of Elections

1:21-cv-03139 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 10, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This lawsuit was filed on June 10, 2021, by Latino and Latina voters against the state of Illinois, the Illinois State Board of Elections, the State Senate, and the State House of Representatives alleging that the new legislative districts under a redistricting plan adopted in June 2021 resulted in equal protection violations in the form of malapportionment. A similar lawsuit was also brought around the same time by an Illinois State Senator, McConchie v. Illinois State Board of Elections, and …