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Brown v. Schedler

2:17-cv-09627 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2017

Closed Date: May 3, 2018

This is a case alleging election mismanagement after two candidates were disqualified from a New Orleans election on the grounds that the falsified their personal tax history.  On September 26, 2017, two Louisiana citizens who had sought candidacies in New Orleans local filed a Complaint (pro se) against the Secretary of State of Louisiana, the Attorney General of Louisiana (together, the “State Official Defendants”), several Louisiana state court judges (altogether the “Judge Defendants” and c…
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White-Battle v. Moss

2:05-cv-00761 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 2005

Closed Date: Sept. 7, 2006

This lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of Virginia on December 29, 2005, by a candidate who had lost her election for Norfolk City Treasurer. She filed suit against the members of the Norfolk Electoral Board. She claimed that her vote had not been counted, the voting machines rigged the results in favor of white candidates, and the voting machines incorrectly counted African-American votes in violation of the Voting Rights Act. The case was assigned to Judge Henry C. Morgan.  On Februar…
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Grant v. Gonzales County, Texas

5:06-cv-01099 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 2006

Closed Date: Feb. 15, 2007

This is a case about a challenge to Gonzales County, Texas's change of locations of an election polling place without administrative or judicial preclearance. On December 14, 2006, three African American registered voters in Gonzales County filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas San Antonio Division. The plaintiffs sued Gonzales County, Texas under the Voting Rights Act. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought a declaration that El…
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Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7 v. Holder

1:11-cv-00461 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 2, 2011

Closed Date: June 1, 2021

This is a case about a County seeking to remove itself from the preclearance procedures under the Voting Rights Act. Jefferson County Drainage District Number 7 is a political subdivision of the State of Texas subject to the special provisions of the Voting Rights Act, including Section 5, 42 U.S.C.  § 1973c.  This was based on a coverage determination made pursuant to Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act.  Under Section 5, the District is required to obtain preclearance from either the United…
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Petteway v. Galveston County, Texas

3:11-cv-00511 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2011

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2015

This case is about redistricting plans for certain local election districts in Galveston County, Texas, following the 2010 Census and whether those plans violated the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution. Seven Galveston County, Texas, elected officials (six of whom were minorities and one of whom was not) and one minority Galveston County resident filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division, on November 14, 2011.  Defendants were…
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City of College Park v. City of Atlanta

1:08-cv-01464 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 18, 2008

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the City of Atlanta’s acquisition of property near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and its impact on the voting population of the City of College Park, a municipality separate of Atlanta near the airport and with a majority African-American population.  On April 18, 2008, the plaintiffs, the City of College Park and a councilperson in College Park’s fourth ward, represented by private counsel, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northe…
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City of Pleasant Grove v. United States

1:80-02589 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 1980

Closed Date: Jan. 21, 1987

This is a case about an annexed municipality being refused pre-clearance under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  In 1980, The City of Pleasant Grove (plaintiff) filed an action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia “seeking declaratory judgment that the annexation by the city of certain land did not have ‘the purpose of effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color.’  The Attorney General (defendant) denied preclearance for the annexat…
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Middlesex County, Virginia v. Gonzales

1:07-cv-01485 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2007

Closed Date: Jan. 7, 2008

This case is about an action for declaratory relief brought by plaintiff Middlesex County, Virginia, pursuant to Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §1973b. In 1982, Congress made changes in the exemption standards of the Voting Rights Act which provides that states, as well as political subdivisions within those states that are covered under the special provisions of the Act, are entitled to a declaratory judgment granting an exemption from the Act's special remedial provisions if ce…
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Patino v. City of Pasadena

4:14-cv-03241 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2014

Closed Date: June 30, 2023

This is a case about voter dilution and preclearance of voting rights changes.  On November 12, 2014, registered Hispanic voters of the City of Pasadena, Texas filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Plaintiffs sued the City of Pasadena, the Mayor, and members of the Pasadena City Council under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 52 U.S.C. § 10301 (formerly 42 U.SC. § 1973). Specifically, Plaintiffs claimed that the City altered its gove…
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Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Barnett

5:20-cv-05058 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2020

Case Ongoing

On September 16, 2020, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and their members, the Oglal Sioux Tribe and their members, and Four Directions Inc., an organization that fights for Native American voting rights filed suit in the United States District Court, District of South Dakota, Western Division. The Plaintiffs filed the action against Steve Barnett, Secretary of State of South Dakota and chairperson of its board of elections, Laurie Gill, Secretary of South Dakota's Department of Social Services, Marcia …