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The court denied plaintiffs' motion for a temporary restraining order on enforcing North Dakota's voter ID law.
The Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court's previous decision and held that the Voting Rights Act (VRA) does abrogate sovereign immunity. CLC previously submitted a friend of the court brief arguing that protections of the Voting Rights Act override state sovereignty in order to protect voters and hold state officials accountable for racially discriminatory election laws. The Eleventh Circuit's decision was a victory for CLC in protecting voters against racially discriminatory election laws.
Judge Ramos found that there was sufficient evidence to sustain a conclusion that the Texas voter ID bill was passed with discriminatory purpose.
The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the district court in favor of the challenge to racial gerrymandering in Texas state house district 90. The Court reversed the district court’s ruling that two other districts intentionally discriminated against minority voters. Campaign Legal Center submitted an amicus brief with the National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in support of the lower court’s ruling for all three districts.
A court in Richmond determined that the state of Virginia illegally sorted voters into districts based on their race.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in Gill v. Whitford on June 18, 2018.
The Supreme Court issued a decision in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, a case about political apparel in polling places.
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.
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 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.
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.