The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision made by a federal district court. This decision upheld Montana's base contribution limits as constitutional.

This is a court opinion for the Fifth Circuit in Patino et al. v. City of Pasadena. Under the settlement, Pasadena will drop its appeal to the Fifth Circuit and pay $1,097,341 in attorney’s fees and costs. This leaves in place the district court’s injunction requiring Pasadena to use its 8-0 redistricting plan for the remainder of the decade, as well as the district court’s bail-in order placing Pasadena under section 5 preclearance until June 30, 2023.   

A federal court in Texas permanently blocked Texas latest version of its voter photo ID law, SB 5. Campaign Legal Center represents Texas voters in its challenge to the law in the case Veasey v. Abbott. Judge Ramos of the Southern District of Texas said Texas’s latest voter photo ID law, SB 5, keeps the same limited forms of photo ID required under SB 14 and therefore carries forward the same “discriminatory features” of the original SB 14 voter photo ID law.

A federal court in Texas permanently blocked Texas latest version of its voter photo ID law, SB 5. Campaign Legal Center represents Texas voters in its challenge to the law in the case Veasey v. Abbott. Judge Ramos of the Southern District of Texas said Texas’s latest voter photo ID law, SB 5, keeps the same limited forms of photo ID required under SB 14 and therefore carries forward the same “discriminatory features” of the original SB 14 voter photo ID law.

The district court reaffirmed CLC's trial win in November in the case against a Houston ISD official who had set up a “pay to play” scheme for contractor work. The court denied their motion for a new trial and judgment as a matter of law entirely. 

The Sixth Circuit found that the case did not have standing.

Court grants plaintiffs’ motion to shorten the time on the preliminary injunction motion and requires defendants disclose to counsel for plaintiffs a list of all voter applications previously purged or denied based on convictions for the past two years on or before July 21, 2017, or show cause on or before July 13, 2017, why they should not be required to do so.   

The Supreme Court ordered a stay in Gill v. Whitford.

U.S. Supreme Court affirms North Carolina’s 2011 Congressional maps are an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Judge Ramos found that there was sufficient evidence to sustain a conclusion that the Texas voter ID bill was passed with discriminatory purpose.

The Department of Justice, lead by Jeff Sessions, had their motion to dismiss accepted by the District Court in the Texas voter ID case.

CLC filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the FEC failed to act on five complaints calling for them to investigate donors who broke disclosure laws. The court rejected the FEC's motion to dismiss.

CLC filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the FEC failed to act on five complaints calling for them to investigate donors who broke disclosure laws. The court rejected the FEC's motion to dismiss.