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State of Washington v. Trump

2:25-cv-00602 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: April 4, 2025

This case challenged the President's authority to dictate how states conduct their elections. On April 4, 2025, the State of Washington and the State of Oregon filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against President Donald Trump, along with numerous other federal entities and officials, including the Executive Office of the President, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Departme…

Case Is Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Blodgett v. Hughs

1:19-cv-01154 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 26, 2019

Closed Date: July 28, 2021

This case is about a Texas law (House Bill 1888) that prohibits temporary early-voting locations unless they operate the same weekdays as the main early voting location and are open for at least eight hours on each of those days. On November 26, 2019, a 96-year-old registered voter living in Austin along with Texas Young Democrats and Texas College Democrats filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (Austin). They sued the Texas Secretary of State under 42 …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

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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 sued the State of Louisiana and the Registrar of Voters for East Carroll Parish for creating policies that prevented Black people from exercising the right to register to vote. This action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, and was assigned to Chief Judge Ben C. Dawkins, Jr. The Attorney General sought injunctive relief to end the systemic voter registration denial for persons of color.  As alleged in the compl…
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League of Women Voters of Florida v. Scott

4:16-cv-00633 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 12, 2016

On October 11, 2016, League of Women Voters of Florida filed its Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief under the National Voter Registration Act, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988 against the Governor of the State of Florida and the Secretary of State of the State of Florida (the “Defendants”).  Plaintiff sought a preliminary injunction in the US District Court of the Northern Di…
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Thompson v. State of Alabama

2:16-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2016

Closed Date: May 25, 2023

A voting rights organization and several convicted felons filed putative class action against the Alabama Secretary of State, chair of county board of registrars, and chair of Board of Pardons and Paroles, alleging that the amendment to state constitution disenfranchising persons convicted of felonies involving moral turpitude violated Equal Protection and Ex Post Facto Clauses, and that Alabama's mail voting registration form violated National Voting Registration Act (NVRA).  The Supreme Court…
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Hoffard v. Cochise County

4:20-cv-00243 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 3, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2022

This is a case about a physically disabled individual who was unable to vote because the County of Cochise, Arizona removed curbside voting. On June 30, 2020, Plaintiff filed this lawsuit in United States District Court of Arizona. The Plaintiff sued Lisa Marra in her official capacity as Director of Cochise County Elections Department, and Cochise County under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

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Gray v. St. Louis City Board of Elections

4:16-cv-01548 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2016

Closed Date: Oct. 13, 2016

This case is about absentee voting accommodations for voters with visual impairments.   On September 30, 2016, two blind voters filed a federal complaint in the Eastern District of Missouri.  The plaintiffs sued the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners (“Election Board”) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.  Represented by the Saint Louis University Legal Clinic and the Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services, the plaintiffs sought a …
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Voting Rights Defense Project v. Padilla

3:16-cv-02739 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 20, 2016

Closed Date: April 13, 2017

On 20 May 2016, the Voting Rights Defense Project, the American Independent Party and two individuals in their capacity as eligible California voters brought an action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against: the Secretary of State of California, the chief of Alameda County Registrar of Voters and the Director of the San Francisco Board of Elections, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to protect the voting rights of no-party-preference (“NPP”) voters in…
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De Luca v. North Carolina State Board of Elections et al

5:16-cv-00913 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 21, 2016

On November 21, 2016, the CEO of the Civitas Institute filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina seeking declaratory and injunctive relief restraining the North Carolina State Board of Elections (the “Board”), the chief state election official of the Board and five members of the Board (collectively, the “State Defendants”) from counting and certifying votes cast in the November 2016 general election via same-day registration (“SDR”) until all SDR b…
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Vote No On Amendment One v. Warner

2:18-cv-01406 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2018

Closed Date: July 24, 2019

On November 5, 2018, three Plaintiffs—a non-profit organized to defeat a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the West Virginia Constitution and two individual volunteers—filed a Complaint in the US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia against the West Virginia Secretary of State under the federal Declaratory Judgment Act and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for declaratory and injunctive relief for constitutional violations.  Plaintiffs alleged the volunteers had been prohibited by the Sec…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)