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Texas LULAC v. Abbott

1:20-cv-01006 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2020

Closed Date: March 24, 2021

This is a case about access to ballot dropboxes in Texas during the 2020 election, which took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. On October 1, 2020, the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens ("LULAC"), the League of Women Voters of Texas and two individuals who vote in Texas filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The former represents Latino interests in the state of Texas, and the latter represent women voters in Texas. The defendants include …
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. West Monroe

3:21-cv-00988 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 14, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about alleged violations of the Voting Rights Act by the city of West Monroe in their election process for the Board of Alderman. On April 14, 2021, the United States filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Louisiana against the city of West Monroe under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 USC § 10301. The United States Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division sought declaratory relief through a court order declaring that the current method of electing West Monroe's…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. City of Euclid

1:06-cv-01652 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: July 10, 2006

Closed Date: April 16, 2008

This is a voting rights case brought in 2006 by the United States against the City of Euclid, Ohio. At the time, Euclid used a combination of single-member districts and slotted, at-large positions, which resulted in the dilution of the voting strength of Black people. Under the combination of single-member and at-large/multimember districts, in elections since 1995 for the Euclid City Council, white voters consistently voted as a bloc to defeat every candidate preferred by Black voters. Under …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Milligan v. Merrill

2:21-cv-01530 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2021

Case Ongoing

On November 16, 2021, a coalition of civil rights organizations and Alabama voters filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against Secretary of State Thomas Merrill and the co-chairs of the Alabama Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment. Plaintiffs alleged that the reapportionment committee impermissibly used race as the predominant factor in drawing the district maps adopted in House Bill 1 ("HB 1"). Plaintiffs further alleged that by preventing t…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Benavidez v. Irving Independent School District (Texas)

3:08-cv-00924 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 2, 2008

Closed Date: June 18, 2010

This is a case about an independent school district's at-large system of electing members to its Board of Trustees which allegedly denied Hispanic voters the opportunity to participate meaningfully in the electoral process. On June 2, 2008, a Hispanic candidate for the Irvine Independent School District Board of Trustees filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued the Irving Independent School District and the Board trustees in their offi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
English v. Chester County

2:10-cv-00244 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2010

Closed Date: July 20, 2010

This is a case about African American voters registered in the Lower Oxford East precinct in Chester County, Pennsylvania who had to wait as long as seven hours in line to vote -- far longer than voters elsewhere in the County. On January 20, 2010, Five African American voters filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Chester County, the Chester County Board of Elections, three county commissioners, and the director of Chester County Voter Servi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
People First of Alabama v. Merrill

2:20-cv-00619 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 1, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 16, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: This lawsuit was filed by Alabama voters to temporarily enjoin Alabama’s voting law provisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs challenged the witness and photo ID requirement, requiring absentee voters to obtain witness or notary signatures, and submit a photocopy of their ID with their ballot. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief to enjoin enforcement of the Witness and ID requirement and to allow curbside voting during the primary, municipal, …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thomas v. Merrill

2:21-cv-01531 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2021

Case Ongoing

The Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU and NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed suit on behalf of four named plaintiffs and two organizational plaintiffs on November 15, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama alleging that new state legislative districts drawn in 2021 deliberately diminished the power of Black voters. Plaintiffs allege that the Alabama districts signed into law on November 4, 2021 violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment as wel…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
White v. State Board of Election Commissioners

4:22-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 25, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the racial makeup of the districts by which Mississippi Supreme Court justices are elected. On April 25, 2022, a group of four Black citizens and civic leaders filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners and the state of Mississippi, alleging that the districts used to elect state Supreme Court justices are discriminatory against Black voters in violation of t…