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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Johnson v. DeGrandy

4:92-cv-40015 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 1992

Closed Date: 1994

On January 14, 1992, a member of the Florida House of Representatives and other registered voters representing African-American and Hispanic voters, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiffs sued the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, the President of the Florida Senate, the Governor of Florida, and other state officials for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. T…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Remmers v. Yoshina

1:02-cv-00451 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: July 22, 2002

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2004

On July 22, 2002, a former pretrial detainee at Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) who was denied his constitutional right to vote in the November 2000 election filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. The Clearinghouse was unable to access documents from the court, but was able to gather the following information based on an August 15, 2005 notice published in Prison Legal News and a 2004 ACLU of Hawaii Litigation report. The plaintiff sued the state chi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mays v. Thurston

4:20-cv-00341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: March 26, 2020

On March 26, 2020, the Christian Ministerial Alliance and two voters filed a suit against the Governor and Secretary of State of Arkansas against the Election Day receipt deadline. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, the plaintiffs sought declaratory action under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201-02 and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 52 U.S.C. § 10301 enjoining the Election Day Receipt deadline. The plaintiffs alleged that the deadline posed significant risks fo…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Prye v. Blunt

2:04-cv-04248 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2004

Closed Date: 2007

During 2003, a law professor residing in Illinois developed a mental illness. Due to this illness, a state court appointed the Office of State Guardian as guardian of his person and, in 2004, of his estate. He moved to Missouri, where a petition was soon filed to appoint a guardian for him. The guardianship in Illinois did not affect his eligibility to vote while residing there, but the guardianship adjudication had a different, prohibitive impact on his voting rights in Missouri. Thus, in …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Johnson v. Bush

1:00-cv-03542 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2000

On September 22, 2000, eight plaintiffs filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. All the plaintiffs had felony convictions, had completed their sentences, and had not had restoration of their civil rights to register and vote. In the complaint, they challenged the Florida constitution's felony disenfranchisement provision under the federal Voting Rights Act ("VRA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1973, and the First, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Twenty-fourth Amendm…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Muntaqim v. Coombe

9:94-cv-01237 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 1994

Closed Date: May 4, 2006

This action is one of two cases filed in federal court that challenged a New York State law that prohibited people from voting because they were incarcerated or on parole for a felony conviction. The other case, [Hayden v. Pataki], was filed in the Southern District of New York in September 2000, while this case was filed in the Northern District of New York in September 1994.Here, the District Court (Judge Norman A. Mordue) granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment by an order dated …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ignatyev v. Chertoff

2:08-cv-01547 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 1, 2008

Closed Date: May 15, 2009

On April 1, 2008, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, two named plaintiffs filed a class action complaint against the heads of the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and of Justice, the directors of the FBI and of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS"), and the Philadelphia district's acting district director of USCIS. The plaintiffs alleged they were lawful permanent residents who applied to the USCIS to become naturalized U.S. citizens, but wh…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Baker v. Carr

59-cv-02724 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: May 18, 1959

This case was a malapportionment challenge resulting from Tennessee’s over 50-year failure to redistrict its legislative districts. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that redistricting claims brought under the Equal Protection Clause were justiciable. Further, the court created a categorical test to determine whether a case presented a non-justiciable political question. On May 18, 1959, numerous Tennessee voters filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tenne…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Association of People With Disabilities v. Harris

3:01-cv-01275 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2001

On November 8, 2001, three Florida citizens who are each either manually or visually impaired and registered to vote in Duval County, along with the American Association of People With Disabilities, filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville division against the Secretary of State for the State of Florida, the Supervisor of Elections in Duval County and the Members of the Jacksonville, Florida City Council, asserting three claims: a Florida constituti…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Doe v. Reed

3:09-cv-05456 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 28, 2009

Closed Date: 2012

On July 28, 2009, plaintiffs, two anonymous individuals who signed a voting petition and the group that organized the petition drive, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against the State of Washington under 42 U.S.C. §1983. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, challenged the constitutionality of the state's Public Records Act as applied to the referendum process, claiming violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. They sought declara…