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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Johnson v. Callanen

5:22-cv-00409 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

Three blind Texas voters and two organizational plaintiffs, National Federation of the Blind of Texas and the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, filed suit to assert their rights to accessible absentee ballots in order for people who cannot mark or sign a paper ballot to be able to vote privately and independently. The plaintiffs were represented by Disability Rights Texas (the Texas protection and advocacy system) and private counsel. The case was filed on April 27, 2022 in federal court i…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
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…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Danley v. Allen

3:06-cv-00680 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 6, 2006

Closed Date: Sept. 16, 2009

On April 6, 2006, Plaintiff filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Lauderdale County Detention Center in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked for compensatory and punitive damages, claiming he was the victim of excessive force and deliberate indifference in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Plaintiff alleged that the jail administrator and sheriff were individually liable for the actions of the c…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause Georgia v. Kemp

1:18-cv-05102 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2018

Closed Date: May 29, 2020

This is a case about Georgia's alleged insecure storage of voter information. Plaintiff, a non-partisan lobbying group, filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of State of Georgia in the U.S. District Court for the North District of Georgia on November 5, 2018, that alleged that information in the voter registration server is vulnerable to multiple security breaches and exploitable by manipulation of voter data. The server is used at polls to determine whether voters are eligible to vote. Plainti…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Idaho Federation of Teachers v. Labrador

1:23-cv-00353 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2023

Closed Date: July 2, 2024

This case is about Idaho’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act (“NPFAA”), which criminalized the use of public funds to “promote abortion” or “counsel in favor of abortion.” On August 8, 2023, two unions – the Idaho Federation of Teachers and the University of Idaho Teachers Federation, Local 3215 of the American Federation of Teachers – and six university professors filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Idaho. Plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, the ACLU of Idaho, and private counsel,…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Petteway v. Galveston County

3:22-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case centers around the 2021 Galveston County, Texas redistricting process and is part of a series of cases challenging the redistricting practices in Galveston County over a number of years. This was the first Voting Rights Act (VRA) case decided since the Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023). Following the 2010 Census, county leaders adopted a redistricting plan for the county commissioners’ districts that would have effectively removed the single minority op…
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
Allen v. Waller County, Texas

4:18-cv-03985 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2018

Closed Date: April 14, 2022

This case involved allegations that county officials failed to allocate sufficient time for early voting during the 2018 general election cycle to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) (a historically Black university) in the State of Texas as compared to the other surrounding areas. Individual students and a student and alumni organization PVAMU, represented by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorneys, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston Div…