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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United Spinal Association v. Board of Elections in the City of New York

1:10-cv-05653 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 26, 2010

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2020

On July 26, 2010, the United Spinal Association and Disabled in Action represented by Disabled Rights Advocates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Board of Elections in the City of New York under the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq.) and the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794). They sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants knowingly failed to fix deficiencies in accessibility at pollin…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Manning

61-08257 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 28, 1961

Closed Date: Feb. 16, 1963

On April 28, 1961, the U.S Attorney General charged the State of Louisiana and Cecil Manning, the Registrar of Voters for East Carroll Parish, with having engaged in acts preventing people from voting on the basis of race. The action was filed in the Western District of Louisiana, and was assigned to Chief Judge Ben C. Dawkins, Jr. The Attorney General sought injunctive relief, seeking to end the systemic voter registration denial for persons of color.  At the end of the 1960 voter registration…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States and Washington County Agreement

No Court

On December 14, 2004, the United States Department of Justice and Washington County, Utah, reached a settlement to resolve the Department’s ongoing compliance review of the County under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131–12134, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794. The Department’s review was designed to determine whether the County’s programs and services were accessible to persons with disabilities and whether the County provided p…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Western Native Voice v. Stapleton

DV-2020-0377 | Montana state trial court

Filed Date: March 12, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2020

On March 12, 2020, Western Native Voice, Montana Native Vote, and multiple Native American tribes filed this lawsuit in the Thirteenth Judicial District Court of Montana seeking to invalidate the Montana Ballot Interference Prevention Act (BIPA). The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Montana and the Native American Rights Fund, sued the Montana Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Commissioner of Political Practices. They sought attorneys' fees and declaratory and injunctive relief ba…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Katzenbach v. Morgan

1:65-01915 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 1965

Closed Date: June 13, 1966

This case involves a challenge to Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. New York election law required Puerto Rican voters to prove their English proficiency by showing they had completed education at least through the sixth grade entirely or predominantly in English. However, Section 4(e) prohibited denying the right to vote to anyone educated through sixth grade in Puerto Rico in a language other than English. Two New York voters sued the New York City Board of Elections, whose membe…
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Nielsen v. DeSantis

4:20-cv-00236 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 16, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2020

This case is about large-scale voter disenfranchisement in Florida at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, Florida reported 149 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The State of Florida imposed numerous restrictions in response to the virus. Universities sent home students, Supervisors of Elections closed or moved numerous polling stations, and numerous individuals quarantined. Despite these circumstances, state officials still planned to hold the Florida presidential primary as sched…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Priorities USA v. Nessel

4:19-cv-13341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2019

This lawsuit was filed on November 12, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiff, a left-wing advocacy group called Priorities USA, sued Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in her official capacity. They were represented by private counsel. The group claimed that two Michigan laws, the "Voter Transportation Ban" and the "Absentee Ballot Organizing Ban," violated the U.S. Constitution. The Voter Transportation Ban prohibited the hiring of vehicles to b…
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Powell v. Benson

2:20-cv-11023 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 25, 2020

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for more current information, see their tracker. This suit was filed on April 25, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The suit was brought by two individual plaintiffs, each blind, against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Michigan Director of Elections Jonathan Brater. The plaintiffs were represented by private counsel. The lawsuit argued tha…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
State of Washington v. Trump

1:20-cv-03127 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2020

Closed Date: Feb. 17, 2021

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 09/18/2020, Plaintiffs are WA, CO, CT, IL, MD, MI, MN, NV, NM, OR, RI, VT, WI, and VA suing Trump, DeJoy and the USPS. The complaint begins by laying out the historical importance of the post office and by describing the statutory requirements that the post office must satisfy in order to implement certain changes to mail…

Complaint for Declaratory Judgment, Mandamus, and Injunctive Relief

State of Washington v. Trump

Aug. 18, 2020

Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction

State of Washington v. Trump

Sept. 9, 2020

Unopposed Motion for Leave to File Brief as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction By the County of Santa Clara, the City of Columbus, and Thirty-Eight Local and Tribal Governments and For Leave to File Brief in Excess of Page Limit

State of Washington v. Trump

Sept. 11, 2020

Brady and Team Enough's Motion for Leave to File Amicus Brief in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction

State of Washington v. Trump

Sept. 11, 2020

[Proposed] Amici Curiae Brief of the County of Santa Clara, the City of Columbus, and Thirty-Eight Local and Tribal Governments

State of Washington v. Trump

Sept. 11, 2020

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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas LULAC v. Abbott

1:20-cv-01006 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2020

Closed Date: March 24, 2021

This is a case about access to absentee ballot drop-off locations in Texas during the 2020 election, which took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. On October 1, 2020, the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the League of Women Voters of Texas, and two individuals who vote in Texas filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The defendants included Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Secretary of State Ruth Hughs, and the elections officials of fo…