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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Holloway v. City of Virginia Beach

2:18-cv-00069 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2023

On November 20, 2017, Plaintiff Latasha Holloway submitted an application to proceed in forma pauperis ("IFP") and a proposed complaint in the Richmond Division of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  In the proposed complaint, Plaintiff alleged that the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia's at-large election of its City Council violated the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roppolo v. Linthicum

2:19-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 11, 2017, individuals with Hepatitis C detained by the state of Texas brought this suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and its medical providers: Correctional Managed Healthcare Committee and the University of Texas Medical Branch. Hepatitis C, if left untreated, causes severe damage to a person’s liver. Yet Texas refused to provide Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) medications to persons in custody of its state prison system, which the plaintiffs alleged viola…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Flores v. Town of Islip

2:18-cv-03549 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 18, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2020

This case alleged that the town of Islip, New York's election scheme unconstitutionally diluted the strength of the Latino vote.  On June 18, 2018, Latino voters and a New York-based voting rights group sued the town of Islip, New York; the Islip Town Board; and the Suffolk County Board of Elections in the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs claimed that the city's at-large election scheme had the effect of impairing Islip’s minority Latino voters right to an equal opportunity to participa…
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
LeBlanc v. Mathena

2:12-cv-00340 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 19, 2012

Closed Date: April 24, 2018

On June 19, 2012, a prisoner incarcerated at the Red Onion State Prison in Pound, Virginia, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel and Equal Justice Initiative, sought relief from his sentence under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The plaintiff claimed that denial of relief by the Virginia courts ran contrary to federal law clearly established by Su…
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
American Civil Rights Union v. Philadelphia City Commissioner

2:16-cv-01507 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 4, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 17, 2017

This is a case about whether incarcerated individuals should be considered residents in a city's voter registration record.  On April 4, 2016, the American Civil Rights Union filed suit against the Commissioners of the City of Philadelphia in April of 2016 after providing notice that the number of voters registered in the City was improbably high given the number of residents based on recent data. Specifically, plaintiff took issue with defendants' inclusion of incarcerated individuals on the v…
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
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
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…