On July 20, 2016, the Lawyers’ Committee, Garza Golando Moran, PLLC, and Dechert LLP filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on behalf of individual Latino voters alleging that the method of electing Texas’s Supreme Court and...
On September 7, 2016, the Lawyers’ Committee filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP and four black voters alleging that the method of electing Alabama’s most powerful judges violates the Voting Rights Act (VRA). The suit maintains that...
On August 8, 2016, the Lawyers’ Committee, along with the Washington, D.C. office of Crowell and Moring LLP and Atlanta-based attorney Brian J. Sutherland, Esq. of Buckley Beal, LLP, acting as pro bono counsel, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Georgia State Conference...
On June 2, 2016, the Lawyers’ Committee, together with pro bono counsel Mannatt LLP and local pro bono counsel Osborn & Maledon, LLP, filed a complaint in Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona. The complaint alleged violations of the following Arizona...
This lawsuit, brought on behalf of the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission and seven members of the Navajo Nation challenged the decision by San Juan County, Utah to reduce the number of in-person polling places and rely on a vote-by-mail system. In addition, the...
