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Coca v. Dodge City, Kansas, City of

6:22-cv-01274 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

In this case, two Latino voters claimed that the at-large election system in Dodge City, Kansas, keeps Latine candidates out of office. The Dodge City Commission uses an at-large election system that allows citizens to vote for any candidate on the five-seat commission. The current method selects winners based on the total number of votes they receive instead of selecting single winners from geographic districts. The plaintiffs, Latino citizens who are registered voters in Dodge City, alleged t…
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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…
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Arkansas State Conference NAACP v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment

4:21-cv-01239 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about voting rights in Arkansas in light of the 2021 reapportionment plan for the Arkansas House of Representatives (“the Board Plan”). On December 29, 2021, the Arkansas State Conference NAACP (“the Arkansas NAACP”) and the Arkansas Public Policy Panel (“the Panel”) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU (Voting Rights Project) and private counsel. The defendants were the State of Arkansas, …
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Common Cause v. Rucho

1:16-cv-01026 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2019

The following case alleged that North Carolina’s 2016 redistricting plan was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that partisan gerrymandering was a non-justiciable political question.  The case was filed on August 5, 2016, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Plaintiffs included an organization advocating for redistricting reform, the North Carolina Democratic Party, and fifteen registered Democrats. Defendants…
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Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches v. Merrill

3:20-cv-00909 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 2, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 25, 2020

This is a case about how Connecticut's restrictions on eligibility for mail-in ballot voting during the COVID-19 pandemic threatened voters' constitutional and statutory rights. On July 2, 2020, a complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut by the Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches, the League of Women Voters of Connecticut ("the League"), and an individual member of the League whose age made her susceptible to serious complications of COVID-19. Th…
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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…
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Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Jaeger

3:22-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the vote dilution of two Native American tribes through the packing and cracking of districts in North Dakota. On February 7, 2022, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Spirit Lake Tribe, along with individual Native American voters, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota. Represented by the Native American Rights Fund, the Campaign Legal Center, and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued North Dakota's Secretary of Stat…
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Karen Finn, et al. v. Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration, et al.

1:22-cv-02300 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case alleged that the redistricting plan for Georgia’s Cobb County Board of Education (CCBE) was a racial gerrymander. On March 2, 2022, the Governor of Georgia signed HB 1028 which would redistrict Board of Education districts for the next ten years. Following the 2018 elections, the board’s membership had gone from a 6-1 white majority to a 4-3 white majority. Defendants claimed a primary goal for the redistricting plan was compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Under …
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Agee, Jr. v. Benson

1:22-cv-00272 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the legality of Michigan House of Representatives and Senate districts.  In November 2018, Michigan voters approved a state constitutional amendment that gave the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission the power to draw state legislative districts, instead of the legislature. Mich. Const. Art. IV, § 6. The amendment also directed the Michigan Secretary of State to serve as the Commission’s non-voting secretary.  On March 23, 2022, twelve Black Michigan voter…
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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 absentee ballot drop-off locations 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 defendants included Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Secretary of State Ruth Hughs, and the elections officials of fo…