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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Greater Birmingham Ministries v. State of Alabama

2:15-cv-02193 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2018

This case is about Alabama House Bill 19 ("HB 19"). HB 19 required voters to present photographic identification in order to vote, with exceptions that include if an election worker could "positively identify" a potential voter. While the bill passed in 2011, the law did not take effect until 2014. On December 2nd, 2015, the Alabama chapter of the NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the State of Alaba…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. The State of Georgia

1:21-cv-02575 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 25, 2021

Case Ongoing

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed suit against the state of Georgia, the Georgia Secretary of State, and the Georgia State Election Board over voting procedures adopted by Georgia Senate Bill 202 (SB 202) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on June 25, 2021. DOJ alleged that SB 202 provisions violated the Voting Rights Act. SB 202 included restrictions on mailing, requesting, and submitting absentee ballots and prohibited distr…
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
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
Carey v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

3:22-cv-00402 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: July 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

On July 8, 2022, the Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed a decades-old precedent that allowed people with disabilities to receive assistance from family members and caregivers in submitting their ballot. In Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, the court construed Wisconsin statute § 6.87(4)(b)1 to mandate that voters with disabilities return their ballot by mail, or in person themselves. The court expressly refused to consider whether voters with disabilities were entitled to assistance when …
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
Disability Law Center of Alaska v. Meyer

3:20-cv-00173 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: July 20, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This case was filed on July 17, 2020 by three nonprofit advocacy groups and two individual plaintiffs in Alaska, seeking injunctive relief enjoining the state from only sending mail absentee applications to voters over 65 years old for the 2020 federal elections and a declaration that the state's policy was unconstitutional. On September 3, 2020, the court denied the plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction. The plaintiffs appealed the denial of the preliminary injuncti…
POLICING
Drumwright v. Cole

1:20-cv-00998 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 2, 2020

Closed Date: June 23, 2022

Two consolidated federal district court cases in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina alleged voter intimidation before the November 2020 elections. One was Drumright v. Cole, 1:20-cv-00998; the other was Allen v. City of Graham, 1:20-cv-00997. Both were filed on the same day by participants in the same event. On October 31, 2020, police dispersed an event held in front of the Graham, NC courthouse, using pepper spray. The event, titled "I Am Change March to the Pol…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
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
The New Georgia Project v. Raffensperger

1:20-cv-01986 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for more current information, see their tracker. COVID-19 summary: On May 8, 2020, two voters and a non-profit organization sued the Georgia Secretary of State, the Georgia State Election Board, and the Board of Registration and Elections of various counties to enjoin various absentee voting laws during COVID-19. The plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief. They also submitted a…