by Devon Sullivan | Jun 24, 2015
On October 6, 2008, a coalition of voting rights organizations including the Lawyers’ Committee submitted a “friend of the court” brief in a lawsuit Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen filed against the State Government Accountability Board regarding the...
by Devon Sullivan | Jun 24, 2015
The Lawyers’ Committee, along with the law firm of Dechert LLP and the University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights, represents the Pitt County Coalition for Educating Black Children, the plaintiffs in a case arising from a school desegregation order issued by...
by Devon Sullivan | Jun 24, 2015
Project Vote v. Madison County Board of Elections, No. 1:08-cv-02266 (N.D. Ohio) was filed on September 24, 2008 on behalf of the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH), 1Matters, Project Vote and two individual voters. The lawsuit was necessary because the...
by Devon Sullivan | Jun 24, 2015
The Lawyers’ Committee and coalition partners took twin actions on October 10, 2008 to protect the right to vote of hundreds of thousands of Ohioans who registered to vote this year, and to halt recent efforts by law enforcement officials in one Ohio county apparently...
by Devon Sullivan | Jun 24, 2015
On February 20, 2014, the Lawyers’ Committee along with the ACLU of Nevada filed suit in state court in Nevada against the advocacy group Our Vote Nevada PAC and its founder, Sharon Angle, challenging their effort to place on the state election ballot an...
