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Graveline v. Johnson

2:18-cv-12354 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: July 27, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2021

This case related to whether Michigan's signature requirement for a candidate to be placed on the ballot was constitutional in that they were narrowly tailored to serve a state interest.  On July 27, 2018, a no-party-affiliation candidate for the office of Michigan Attorney General and supportive voters filed a complaint against the Secretary State of Michigan and the Michigan Bureau of Elections. The Complaint alleged that an early candidate filing deadline and a requirement that submission of…
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Libertarian Party of Ohio v. Brunner

2:08-cv-00555 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 6, 2008

Closed Date: Jan. 25, 2010

This is a case about a third-party candidate's access to the ballot in Ohio.  On June 6, 2008, the Libertarian Party of Ohio (LPO), an alternative political party, its chairman, its candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, one of its candidates for the United States Congress, and one of its candidates for the Ohio legislature filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio alleging that they had been improperly denied access to the Novem…
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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…
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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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Rose v. The Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago

1:15-cv-00382 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2015

Closed Date: April 1, 2016

This is a case alleging that a candidate should be placed on the ballot for a local election in Chicago. On January 15, 2015, an individual resident of Chicago sued the State of Illinois and the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners after they refused to place his name on the ballot for a local election in 2015. Plaintiff brought suit in the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiff alleged that he met the required number of signatures but was not placed on the ballot, which plaintiff alleged …
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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…
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Arizona Democratic Party v. Reagan

2:16-cv-03618 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2016

Closed Date: Nov. 3, 2016

This is a case about Arizona's voter registration deadline. On October 19, 2016, plaintiffs, the Arizona Democratic Party and Democratic National Committee, filed the lawsuit suing the Arizona Secretary of State in the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs claimed that the defendant's decision not to extend the October 10, 2016 voter registration deadline, and to preclude certain voters whose registration applications were received on October 11, 2016 from voting in the November 8, 2016 general e…
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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…
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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 …
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Does, 1-104 v. Wasden

1:16-cv-00429 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 22, 2016, this complaint was filed under 42 U.S.C. §1983 on behalf of 104 unnamed sexual offenders, identified as John or Jane Does, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Idaho against the Idaho Attorney General, the Idaho Department of Corrections, and the Idaho State Police Force. The plaintiffs alleged that Idaho’s Sexual Offender Registration Notification and Community Right-to-Know Act (“SORA”) was unconstitutionally vague in violation of the Due Process and …