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De La Fuente v. Simon

0:19-cv-02995 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Nov. 26, 2019

Closed Date: April 27, 2020

This case is about a constitutional challenge to a Minnesota election law, Minnesota Election Code § 207A.13, subd. 2(a), that provides that candidates seeking the 2020 Republican presidential nomination could only appear on Minnesota's primary election ballot if the candidate was selected by the party and the chair of the party submitted the candidate's name to the secretary of state no later than 63 days before the presidential nomination primary. On November 26, 2019, a member of the Republi…
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Tomasella v. Division of Child Support Services of Texas

3:19-cv-00771 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 28, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 11, 2019

The plaintiff, a private individual, filed this action pro se on March 29, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against the Division of Child Support Services for the State of Texas, the Texas Attorney General, and other agencies and state officials. Plaintiff claimed in relevant part that his legal obligation to pay child support, and subsequent incarceration for failure to pay child support, violated his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process because he was no…
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Common Cause v. Kemp

1:16-cv-00452 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Closed Date: June 12, 2018

This case challenged Georgia’s purging of registered voters who had not voted in past elections. On February 2, 20216, Common Cause and the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued the Georgia Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, in both his individual and official capacity for perceived violations of the First Amendment and 52 U.S.C. § 20501. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought a d…
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Dodge v. Lee

6:22-cv-00221 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2022

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2022

This case concerns the constitutionality of Florida’s requirement that candidates for political office take an oath regarding the candidate’s registered membership in a political party. On February 4, 2022, two Florida residents running for the U.S House of Representatives filed a pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against the Florida Secretary of State, Florida Attorney general, and the Supervisor of Elections of Brevard County. The plaintiffs claimed …
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Bethea v. Deal

2:16-cv-00140 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 17, 2016

Closed Date: Nov. 1, 2016

This case is about the plaintiffs not being able to submit voter registrations before the Georgia registration deadline to vote in the 2016 Presidential Election because the Governor of Georgia had issued an order for residents to submit to mandatory or voluntary evacuation due to the looming Hurricane Matthew. On October 17, 2016, the original plaintiffs, who consisted of a resident of Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia and a nonprofit who regularly conducted voter registration drives in Glynn C…
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Milby v. Office of the Federal Registrar

3:17-cv-00590 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2017

Closed Date: June 11, 2019

This is a case alleging the unconstitutionality of the electoral college.  Plaintiff, a voter in the state of Virginia, filed a Complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against defendant, the Office of the Federal Registrar (“Defendant”), on October 6, 2017, alleging the unconstitutionality of the electoral college system in determining the president of the United States.  (Complaint, ECF #3).  The Complaint was framed as a general “constitutional quest…
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NAACP v. Shelby County Election Commission

2:18-cv-02534 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: July 6, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 8, 2019

This is a case about alleged discriminatory impact of a Tennessee county's decision to only open one early voting location.  The case arose from the Commission’s decision to have only one early voting location for the first four days in July 2018, which allegedly gave voters little to no advance notice. Early voting ran from July 13-July 28, 2018. Approximately two weeks prior to the start of voting, the Commission decided that the Agricultural Center would serve as the sole voting location for…
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Mckay v. Goins

1:15-cv-00224 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2015

Closed Date: Feb. 5, 2016

This case is about voter registration requirements in the State of Tennessee.  On October 14, 1998, Plaintiff initially filed an action against the State of Tennessee, Hamilton County, and various individual government employees asserting that Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-2-116, which requires disclosure of a social security number on the voter registration form, violated the Privacy Act of 1974, Pub. L. No. 93-579, § 7, 88 Stat. 1896, 1909 (1974); the National Voter Registration Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973gg…
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Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Benson

1:21-cv-00929 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case is about the Public Interest Legal Foundation (the “Foundation”) expending its resources to “clean-up” the list of voting registrants in Michigan by requesting an injunction to have Michigan’s Secretary of State (the “Secretary”) implement a plan to investigate and remove deceased registrants from Michigan’s voting list.  On November 3, 2021, the Foundation brought this action against the Secretary in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan under the National Vote…
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City of Stockbridge v. State of Georgia

1:18-cv-03961 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 15, 2018

This is a civil action case about the demographic, financial and contractual implications of the de-annexation of land to form a new city, Eagle’s Landing. On September 13, 2018, the City of Stockbridge, Georgia (“Stockbridge”), the Urban Redevelopment Agency of the City of Stockbridge (“Stockbridge URA”), and two Voter Plaintiffs (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. Plaintiffs sued the Henry …