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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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Alabama State Conference of the NAACP v. Marshall

2:24-cv-00420 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 4, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging Alabama voting laws.  This lawsuit was filed on April 4, 2024, on behalf of five Alabama civil rights organizations against the Alabama Attorney General, the Alabama Secretary of State, and 42 district attorneys for several counties challenging several provisions of Senate Bill 1 (SB1), a law that makes it illegal for individuals and organizations to assist voters in submitting their absentee ballots. The civil rights organizations brought suit against the Attorney Ge…
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…
PUBLIC HOUSING
LA Alliance for Human Rights v. City of Los Angeles

2:20-cv-02291 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is a follow-up to Mitchell v. City of Los Angeles, in which advocates for unhoused people successfully pushed the City of Los Angeles to limit its removal of property in encampments in the Skid Row area of the city. LA Alliance for Human Rights, a community group that primarily represents the interests of business owners, homeowners, and property renters, unsuccessfully attempted to intervene in Mitchell and brought this case after that settlement was reached. LA Alliance filed this a…
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Petteway v. Galveston County, Texas

3:11-cv-00511 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2011

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2015

This case is about redistricting plans for certain local election districts in Galveston County, Texas, following the 2010 Census and whether those plans violated the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution. Seven Galveston County, Texas, elected officials (six of whom were minorities and one of whom was not) and one minority Galveston County resident filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division, on November 14, 2011.  Defendants were…
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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…
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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…
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United States v. Alabama

2:12-cv-00179 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2012

Closed Date: Feb. 21, 2017

The main issue in this case is the State of Alabama’s compliance with the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.    The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act ("UOCAVA") of 1986 permits uniformed service voters and overseas voters to use absentee registration procedures and to vote by absentee ballot in general, special, primary, and runoff elections. UOCAVA also requires that states transmit ballots validly requested by voters no later than 45 days before an election…
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Jones v. Deininger

2:12-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2012

Closed Date: May 1, 2014

This case challenged a Wisconsin voter ID law, Act 23, which required voters to present specific forms of identification in order to vote. The plaintiffs argued that the law disproportionately burdened African American and Latino Voters, in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“VRA”). On February 23, 2021, four community organizations dedicated to serving the African American and Latin American communities in Wisconsin, and one individual who could not register to vote due t…
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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 …