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On January 10, 2018, the Supreme Court decided that Ohio was legally permitted to purge its voters from the rolls.
The Supreme Court in Virginia issued a decision upholding the eleven state legislative districts that were challenged as being in violation of the state constitution and prioritizing partisan criteria. Partisan gerrymandering is a threat to effective democracy and increasingly problematic.
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld Montana's campaign finance laws, rejecting the Montanans for Community Development's claim that the laws were too broad and vague.
In Lair v. Motl, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals released an order denying the plaintiffs' request for an en banc rehearing of the case, which is a long-running challenge to Montana's campaign contribution limits.
The Fifth Circuit has denied the petition for en banc review in Zimmerman v. Austin, a case in which the city's campaign contribution limits are being challenged.
The U.S. District Court rejected the plaintiffs' attempt to keep their identities secret.
On March 17, 2018, a U.S. District Court ruled that the Sumter County Board of Education under the Board of Elections and Registration is in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
On March 19, 2018, the Supreme Court denied an application by the state to stay the ruling.
On February 15, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld that charitable organizations' first amendment rights are not violated by being required to disclose donor information and reversed the Court's ruling that the claim was not ripe.
On October 23, 2017, the Court issued an opinion that reversed the District Court's judgment and found that Montana's campaign contribution limits were within the realm of legislative judgments.
The Fifth Circuit panel issued a unanimous opinion on February 1 upholding the city's contribution limits.
On December 26, 2017, a federal court denied Alabama’s motion to dismiss CLC's lawsuit. The federal court denied the motion to dismiss on many of our claims, and the case will continue to proceed in federal court toward a trial.
The DC Circuit Court issued an opinion in Holmes v. FEC, upholding the structure of FECA's contribution limits.
On Nov. 3, 2017, the Superior Court dismissed the challenge. The result is that the public financing system will stand.
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.