Widespread disenfranchisement and a steep decline in voter registration activity have led a coalition of civic organizations and voters to file a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina for violation of an important federal voting rights law. On December 15, 2015,...
On September 14, 2015, the Lawyers’ Committee, Project Vote, Campaign Legal Center, Voting Rights Institute of the Georgetown University School of Law, along with pro bono counsel Hughes Hubbard and Reed LLP and Atlanta-based firm of Caplan Cobb LLP, filed suit on...
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...
