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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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
A.A. v. Buckner

2:21-cv-00367 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) On May 20, 2021, the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program, Children's Rights, and Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against the state's Department of Human Resources (DHR) on behalf of four teens with mental disabilities placed unnecessarily in or at risk of segregation in pyschiatric residential treatment facilities. 
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…
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
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Adams & Knights v. Kentucky

3:14-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 2014

Closed Date: Dec. 24, 2020

On January 1, 2014, represented by private counsel and the Washington Lawyers' Committee Prisoners Rights Project, deaf and hard of hearing prisoners in the Kentucky prison system filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated against the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet (JPSC), the Department of Corrections (KDOC), and eight individuals serving in leadership roles at JP…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States of America v. State of New York

1:10-cv-01214 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2010

Case Ongoing

This is a case about US citizens' right to vote while overseas. This action was brought on October 12, 2010 by the Attorney General of the United States (“Attorney General”) on behalf of the United States pursuant to the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (“UOCAVA”) against the State of New York. UOCAVA requires states to transmit validly requested ballots to UOCAVA voters not later than 45 days before any federal election. The Attorney General alleged that at least nine New Yo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Harness v. Hosemann

3:17-cv-00791 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 30, 2023

This is a case about the felony disenfranchisement provision of Mississippi’s Constitution, which was enacted in 1890 and strips the right to vote for life from anyone convicted of certain crimes. On 28 September 2017, Black citizens of Mississippi with past felony convictions brought an action against Mississippi's Secretary of State. The claim was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The complaint argued that the disqualifying crimes in the felony disenfr…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Augustine v. Avoyelles Parish

1:06-cv-01662 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2006

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2010

On September 26, 2006, three plaintiffs, who are all African American and registered voters of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Defendants include the Avoyelles Parish Police Jury and the nine members of the Policy Jury in their official capacities. The case was assigned to the Honorable Dee D. Drell, United District Judge. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants violated the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitut…
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…