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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Richwine v. Matuszak

1:23-cv-00370 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2023

Closed Date: Aug. 28, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On August 30, 2023, Plaintiffs Lauren Richwine and Death Done Differently LLC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana to vindicate their First Amendment rights. The complaint alleges that beginning in 2021, the State of Indiana began investigating Richwine’s business under Indiana’s Embalmers and Funeral Directors Laws. Though Richwine did not hold herself out as a licensed funeral director or engage in the t…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Affirmed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Macarro v. Padilla

34-2020-80003404 | California state trial court

Filed Date: June 9, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2020

On June 9, 2020, four individual petitioners and the Coalition to Authorize Regulated Sports Wagering, Sponsored by California Indian Gaming Tribes ("Coalition to Authorize Regulated Sports Wagering") filed a complaint in the Superior County Court of the State of California, County of Sacramento. The plaintiffs sued Alex Padilla in his official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of California. Plaintiffs argued that the statutorily imposed 180 day signature gathering period in the stat…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Nelson v. Warner

3:19-00898 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2021

This case is about a West Virginia statute, West Virginia Code § 3-6-2(c)(3), that requires ballots for all statewide partisan offices to list first the party whose presidential candidate received the most votes in the last presidential election. On December 17, 2019, registered voters affiliated with the Democratic Party, the West Virginia Democratic Party, and the West Virginia Democratic House Legislative Committee filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of We…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Reversed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Lindsey v. Carson

4:19-cv-00612 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2019

On August 9, 2019, Plaintiff, a private citizen, filed this complaint pro se in the Western District of Missouri. In the complaint, Plaintiff accused Ben Carson in his capacity as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of (1) breaching a duty to provide Plaintiff housing and (2) murdering Plaintiff's nephew in an attempt to prevent Plaintiff from obtaining the same. Plaintiff sought "specific performance" compelling Ben Carsen to provide Plaintiff housing. Plaintiff also sought to "punish e…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Susman Godfrey LLP v. Executive Office of the President

1:25-cv-01107 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 11, 2025

This case challenged the constitutionality of an executive order (EO) that targeted a private law firm for its client representation and public positions. On April 11, 2025, Susman Godfrey LLP filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Justice, the Office of Management and Budget, and other federal agencies and officials. Represented by Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, the firm sought declaratory and inj…

Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Arizona Libertarian Party v. Reagan

2:16-cv-01019 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 12, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2019

This case involved allegations that an amendment to two provisions of Arizona law (the “Amended Arizona Laws”), which established the requirements that political parties must meet to place their candidates on Arizona’s primary election ballot, were unconstitutional. The Arizona Libertarian Party and the party’s chairman and a candidate for public office (together, the “Plaintiffs”) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on April 12, 2016, against the Arizona Secretary…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jabbour v. Merrill

1:20-cv-00034 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2020

Closed Date: March 25, 2020

On January 21, 2020, one individual plaintiff and National Defense Committee (“NDC”) filed a suit against the Alabama Secretary of State and the Mobile County Board of Registrars, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged violations of the Fourteenth Amendment and the First Amendment due to defendants’ use of ranked choice ballots. This action challenged Alabama’s Instant Runoff Primary Election scheme, or the Ranked Choice Voting scheme (“RCV Scheme”) for voters …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Miller v. Dunkerton

3:16-cv-00724 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: May 13, 2016

Closed Date: March 21, 2017

On April 27, 2016, Plaintiff, a voter in Brookfield, Connecticut, filed this lawsuit in the Connecticut Superior Court against the Republican Registrar of Voters for the Town of Brookfield, Connecticut after not being re-enrolled on the town Republican Party voter rolls. Plaintiff alleged that her constitutional rights were violated, including her right to due process of law and her right to freedom of association.   The following month, on May 13, Defendant removed the case to the District of …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
The Democratic Party of Georgia v. Crittenden

1:18-cv-05181 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 11, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 14, 2019

On November 11, 2018, The Democratic Party of Georgia, Inc., and AFG Group Inc., a nonprofit doing business as Stacey Abrams for Governor, filed a class action complaint against (1) the Secretary of State for Georgia, (2) members of the Gwinnett County Board of Registration and Elections, (3) members of the DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections, and (4) a class of defendants comprised of superintendents and boards of elections for each of the 159 counties in Georgia.  The complaint …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. State of Alabama

2:16-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2016

Closed Date: May 25, 2023

A voting rights organization and several convicted felons filed putative class action against the Alabama Secretary of State, chair of county board of registrars, and chair of Board of Pardons and Paroles, alleging that the amendment to state constitution disenfranchising persons convicted of felonies involving moral turpitude violated Equal Protection and Ex Post Facto Clauses, and that Alabama's mail voting registration form violated National Voting Registration Act (NVRA).  The Supreme Court…