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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
S.P.S., Ex Rel. v. Raffensperger

1:19-cv-04960 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2020

This is a case about challenging the constitutionality of Georgia’s ballot order statute, O.C.G.A. § 21-2-285(c). On November 1, 2019, individual voters, and the organizations, namely, the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Party of Georgia, Inc. filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division. The case was assigned to the United Stat…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Grayeyes v. Cox

4:18-cv-00041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: June 20, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 7, 2018

This case involved allegations that Defendants in their capacity as state officials had wrongfully denied Plaintiff access to the ballot as a candidate in a county election. Plaintiff sought an injunction to be included on the ballot for County Commissioner. Plaintiff was a member of Navajo Nation in San Juan County, Utah where he lived and operated a business. Plaintiff was a registered voter and voted in San Juan County elections for at least 18 years. Defendants claimed that Plaintiff was no…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Lee v. Virginia State Board of Elections

3:15-cv-00357 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 11, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2016

This case challenged the legality of Virginia's voter identification law. On June 11, 2015, an African American Democrat voter who resided in Virginia, a Latino Democrat voter who resided in Virginia, and the Democratic Party of Virginia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division. Plaintiffs sued the Virginia State Board of Elections and the Virginia Department of Elections under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the First Am…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause/New York v. Brehm

1:17-cv-06770 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2020

This is a case about a New York state law that removed inactive, but still registered, voters from voter lists at polling stations when those voters changed residences. On September 6, 2017, Common Cause/New York filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York against officials of the New York State Board of Elections alleging that their practice of labeling voters as inactive based on a change of residence and their removal of those voters from poll books at voting sites violated Sectio…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. North Carolina State Board of Electors

1:16-cv-01274 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 20, 2019

This is a case about the en mass cancelation of voter registrations by local boards of elections in North Carolina prior to the November 8, 2016 election. Shortly before the federal general election in 2016, boards of elections (BOEs) in at least three North Carolina counties, including Beaufort, Moore, and Cumberland counties, canceled thousands of voters’ registrations based on challenges by private individuals. The private individuals claimed that because a piece of mail was returned as unde…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP. v. Kemp

2:16-cv-00219 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2016

Closed Date: March 28, 2017

This is a case about the constitutionality of Georgia’s “exact match” voter registration policy. On September 14, 2016, the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta, and the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda sued Georgia’s Secretary of State in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia before Senior District Judge William C. O’Kelley. Georgia law required a voting applicant’s name, date of birth, and driver’s license number or…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Toth v. Chapman

1:22-cv-00208 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2022

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2022

This is a fast-paced case about redistricting and the drawing of congressional maps in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania following the results of the decennial census in which Pennsylvania lost one congressional seat. The case was filed in the Middle District of Pennsylvania on February 10, 2022, one day after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania announced that it was suspending the General Primary Election calendar codified in 25 Pa. Stat. §§ 2868 and 2873.  Bringing the case were four registered …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Tennessee v. Hargett

3:19-cv-00385 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: May 9, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 26, 2020

This is a case about voter registration restrictions. Specifically, the case addresses a Tennessee law that imposed restrictions on third-party voter registration organizations. On May 9, 2019, The League of Women Voters of Tennessee, the League of Women Voters of Tennessee Education Fund, the American Muslim Advisory Council, Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, Rock the Vote, and Spread the Vote filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee against…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Shubert v. Obama

4:07-cv-00693 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 17, 2006

Case Ongoing

On May 17, 2006, American citizens who use the telephone and internet filed a putative class action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the President of the United States of America, the National Security Agency and the Attorney General under the Declaratory Judgment Act and Bivens. Represented by private counsel, they sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claim…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
City of College Park v. City of Atlanta

1:08-cv-01464 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 18, 2008

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the City of Atlanta’s acquisition of property near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and its impact on the voting population of the City of College Park, a municipality separate of Atlanta near the airport and with a majority African-American population.  On April 18, 2008, the plaintiffs, the City of College Park and a councilperson in College Park’s fourth ward, represented by private counsel, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northe…