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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota Education Fund v. Detzner

8:12-cv-01294 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 8, 2012

Closed Date: 2013

On June 8, 2012, two naturalized U.S. citizens and a national non-profit dedicated to increasing civic participation among Latinos filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1973c and 28 U.S.C. § 2201 against the State of Florida in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, the ACLU of Florida, the ACLU, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that Flori…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fletcher v. Lamone

8:11-cv-03220 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2011

Closed Date: 2012

On November 10, 2011, nine African-American voters in Maryland filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against Maryland, under Sections 2 and 5 of the Voting Rights Act and 42 U.S.C. §1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief alleging that Maryland intentionally violated minority rights after the 2010 Census by only creating two minority-majority districts (out of eight total) despite 40% of the populat…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas v. Holder

1:12-cv-00128 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2012

Closed Date: 2014

This case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by the State of Texas on January 24, 2012, which sought judicial approval of its voter ID law. Texas was required by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to seek either U.S. Department of Justice or federal court "preclearance" of the law, prior to its implementation. The U.S. Department of Justice opposed preclearance. On August 30, 2012, a three-judge federal district court denied the necessary approval, because Texa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas v. United States

1:11-cv-01303 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 19, 2011

Closed Date: April 4, 2017

On July 19, 2011, the state of Texas filed suit against the United States in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The state asked for a declaratory judgment, alleging that the Department of Justice inappropriately declared Texas's new districting plan to be retrogressive (that is, discriminatory, because it diluted minority voting power). Arguments focused primarily on the demographics of the state of Texas and its new districting map. O…
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Brooks v. Gant

5:12-cv-05003 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Jan. 13, 2012

Closed Date: 2013

On January 13, 2012, members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota against the State of South Dakota, Shannon County, and Fall River County, under §2 and §5 of the Voting Rights Act, the Indian Citizenship Act, 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Declaratory Judgment Act, and state law. They argued that the lack of early voting in Shannon County, the county where the Oglala Sioux reside and which is populated entirely by Native Am…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Shelby County v. Holder

1:10-cv-00651 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 27, 2010

On April 27, 2010, Shelby County, Alabama, filed this lawsuit in the District Court of the District of Columbia, challenging the Voting Rights Act's preclearance provision, Section 5. The county sought declaratory and injunctive relief, arguing that the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional in declaring Shelby County a "covered" jurisdiction and requiring that it obtain approval from the Department of Justice prior to implementing any voting changes. Following a decision in September of 2010 t…
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Detroit NAACP v. Snyder

2:13-cv-12098 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 13, 2013

On May 13, 2013, registered voters of the City of Detroit and the Detroit chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ("NAACP") filed suit against the State of Michigan in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Represented by the NAACP and the Arab-American Civil Rights League, plaintiffs asserted that their constitutional rights to equal protection and to participate in the political process were violated when the state appointed Emergency …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
City of Pleasant Grove v. United States

1:80-cv-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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
OCA-Greater Houston v. Esparza

1:21-cv-00780 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 30, 2021

This lawsuit was filed on September 3, 2021 on behalf of OCA-Greater Houston, League of Women Voters of Texas, REVUP-Texas, Texas Organizing Project and Workers Defense Action Fund challenging the state’s voter suppression legislation, Senate Bill 1. Disability Rights Texas, the state's protection and advocacy agency, served as one of the plaintiffs' attorneys. The suit challenged multiple provisions of S.B. 1: strict ID requirements for mail-in ballots, a restriction on providing assistance to…
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Blakely v. City of Laurel Clerk Office

2:13-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 8, 2013

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 2013

The plaintiff in this case is Harold J. Blakely, and the defendants include the City of Laurel, Terri M. Smith (Deputy Clerk/Registrar), Jacqueline "Chip" Evans (Chairman of the Laurel Municipal Democratic Executive Committee), Jacqueline Darby, Belinda Lassiter, Barbara Brumfield-Pruitt, Charlotte Gibbs-Williams, and Deidra J. Bassi (Defendant's Attorney from Hortman, Harlow, Robinson & McDaniel, PLLC). Harold J. Blakely sought judicial review and an injunction to have his name placed on the b…