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Texas State Conference of The NAACP v. Abbott

1:21-cv-01006 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2021

Closed Date: May 23, 2022

The Texas State Conference of the NAACP (“NAACP”) sued Texas Governor Abbott and Texas Secretary of State John Scott on November 5, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. NAACP alleged that Texas’s newly enacted redistricting maps for the state house, the state senate, and U.S. Congress violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. First, NAACP asserted that race was the controlling factor the Texas legislature considered when drawing the voting maps, and that…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Singleton v. Allen

2:21-cv-01291 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2021

This case challenges the 2011 drawing of Alabama’s Congressional districts. Plaintiffs--registered Alabama voters in different Congressional Districts within the state--filed suit against the Alabama Secretary of State. Plaintiffs filed the case in September 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. They alleged that 2020 census data demonstrated that Alabama’s then-operative congressional districts were malapportioned, and that districting across country boundaries…

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Raleigh Wake Citizens Association v. Barefoot

5:15-cv-00156 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: April 9, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 28, 2017

This case involved allegations that the North Carolina General Assembly’s Session Law 2015-4 violated voters’ rights to an equal vote and their right to not be subjected to racial classifications in redistricting. Voters and an association on voters (Raleigh Wake Citizens Association) who lived in election districts that under Session Law 2015-4 were overpopulated to a significant degree, filed suit on April 09, 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Plainti…
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Rodriguez v. The City of Grand Prairie

3:15-cv-00718 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 4, 2015

Closed Date: July 21, 2015

This is a case about election management in Grand Prairie, Texas. On March 4, 2015, the plaintiff, a Latino voter residing in Grand Prairie, Texas, filed a complaint the United States District Court for the District of North Texas against defendants The City of Grand Prairie, the city’s mayor, and all members of its city council. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, alleged that Grand Prairie’s system for electing its 8-member city council—(1) six single-member districts and two at-la…
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League of Women Voters of Ohio v. Ohio Redistricting Commission

2021-1193 | Ohio state supreme court

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2023

This case is about five different electoral maps for the Ohio legislature enacted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission following the 2020 Census, leading to six opinions of the Ohio Supreme Court.  On September 16, 2021 the Ohio Redistricting Commission enacted an electoral map for the Ohio House and Senate after a 5-2 vote.  On September 23, 2021, the League of Women Voters of Ohio, the A. Philip Randolph Institute of Ohio, and six individual voters—represented by private counsel and ACLU of O…
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DeSena v. State of Maine

1:11-cv-00117 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: March 28, 2011

Closed Date: March 21, 2012

This is a case alleging malapportioned districts in Maine. Plaintiffs, two individual residents of Congressional District 1 in Maine, filed this action in the United States District Court for the District of Maine on March 28, 2011 alleging that their right to vote was unlawfully diluted in violation of Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution and the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.  Defendants included Maine, its Governor, t…
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McConchie v. Illinois State Board of Elections

1:21-cv-03091 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 4, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This case is about the redistricting plan passed by the Illinois General Assembly on May 28, 2021 and signed by the Illinois governor on June 4, 2021, as well as the subsequent redistricting plan signed by the Governor of Illinois on September 24, 2021. The Minority Leaders of the Illinois Senate and House of Representatives (“Plaintiffs”) brought this lawsuit on June 9, 2021 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the Illinois State Board of Elections,…
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Contreras v. Illinois State Board of Elections

1:21-cv-03139 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 10, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This lawsuit was filed on June 10, 2021, by Latino and Latina voters against the state of Illinois, the Illinois State Board of Elections, the State Senate, and the State House of Representatives alleging that the new legislative districts under a redistricting plan adopted in June 2021 resulted in equal protection violations in the form of malapportionment. A similar lawsuit was also brought around the same time by an Illinois State Senator, McConchie v. Illinois State Board of Elections, and …
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South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. Alexander

3:21-cv-03302 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2021

Closed Date: Aug. 1, 2024

This case is about citizens of South Carolina challenging the constitutionality of election district apportionment, redistricting, and gerrymandering in their state. On October 12, 2021, the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and a private plaintiff, represented by the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The defendants in the case were South Carolina's Governor, state legislators, and the members of t…
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Wright v. State of North Carolina

5:13-cv-00607 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2013

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2017

This is a case alleging racial gerrymandering in North Carolina.  On August 22, 2013 Wake County Board of Elections in Wake County, North Carolina mapped a new plan for their voting districts, called the Session Law 2013-110. This redistricting plan was intended to change the voting districts composition for the Wake County Board of Education.  On August 23, 2013, Plaintiffs, Wake County registered voters, submitted a complaint to the court regarding this redistricting plan. Plaintiffs challeng…

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