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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Keyes v. Gunn

3:16-cv-00228 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: March 30, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 30, 2018

This case involved an election dispute in Mississippi concerning a tie in the vote for a seat in the House of Representatives for the State of Mississippi. Both candidates received 4,589 votes and the final result was determined by straw draw. The loser of the election filed a petition with the House contesting the election. A special committee was appointed and voted along party lines, discarding 5 of the 9 affidavit votes originally counted by Smith County election commissioners and the Secre…
EDUCATION
Simpson-Vlach v. Michigan Department of Education

5:21-cv-11532 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 30, 2021

Closed Date: Feb. 20, 2024

This is a putative class action suit brought by and on behalf of children with disabilities who alleged that they did not get their educational needs met by their schools due to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 30, 2021, the plaintiffs—children with disabilities and their parents—filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS), and Washtenaw In…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Schmitt v. Husted

2:18-cv-00966 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 2021

This case alleged that Portage County and Ohio state officials acted as "gatekeepers" by having near-total discretion in determining which initiatives were included on Ohio's ballots. On August 28, 2018, three individuals sued the Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted in his official capacity and the Portage County Board of Elections and each of its four members in their official capacities in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, seeking a declaratory judgment, a pre…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

This is a case seeking an extended voter registration period in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.  On September 30, 2020, two nonprofit civic engagement groups and a resident of Arizona who engages in voter registration work, filed a complaint seeking declaratory judgment and emergency motion for a TRO against the Arizona Secretary of State to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Plaintiffs argued that the COVID-19 pandemic severely curtailed plaintiffs’ voter registration …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Brown v. Schedler

2:17-cv-09627 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2017

Closed Date: May 3, 2018

This is a case alleging election mismanagement after two candidates were disqualified from a New Orleans election on the grounds that the falsified their personal tax history.  On September 26, 2017, two Louisiana citizens who had sought candidacies in New Orleans local filed a Complaint (pro se) against the Secretary of State of Louisiana, the Attorney General of Louisiana (together, the “State Official Defendants”), several Louisiana state court judges (altogether the “Judge Defendants” and c…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
The Libertarian Party of Kentucky v. Grimes

3:15-cv-00086 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 12, 2015

Closed Date: May 16, 2017

This case alleged that the Libertarian and Constitution Parties should be classified as political parties, not political groups, for the purposes of elections.  On December 11, 2015, plaintiffs - the Libertarian Party of Kentucky, the Libertarian National Committee, the Constitution Party of Kentucky, and Ken Moellman, Jr., an individual voter and former Libertarian Party candidate for Kentucky state office – brought an action against Kentucky's Secretary of State, state's attorney general, and…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Grimes

3:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case involved the Commonwealth of Kentucky's failure to comply with its voter list maintenance and record production obligations under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), 52 U.S.C. §§ 2057, and its subsequent failure to adhere to the requirements of a consent judgment resolving the NVRA violations.                     On November 14, 2017, Judicial Watch, Inc., a non-partisan educational organization whose mission is to promote transparency, integrity, and acco…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of Il v. Yarbrough

1:22-cv-00578 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 2022

Closed Date: Nov. 10, 2022

This is a case brought by the Libertarian Party of Illinois arguing that the Libertarian Party should be considered an “established political party” under the Illinois Election Code and is thus entitled to the rights and privileges of major political parties.  On February 1, 2022, the Libertarian Party of Illinois, a political party, and a number of registered voters, holding membership and various leadership roles within the party, filed suit in the Northern District of Illinois against Defend…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mecinas v. Hobbs

2:19-cv-05547 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2019

Closed Date: June 2, 2022

This is a case about challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s general election ballot ordering statute, A.R.S. § 16-502(E). On November 1, 2019, the individual voters, and the organizations, namely, the Democratic National Committee (“DNC”), the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (“DSCC”) and Priorities USA (“Priorities”), a political action committee, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court District of Arizona. The case was assigned to the United States District Judg…