On February 23, 2016, the Lawyers’ Committee, with the law firm Carlton Fields and Jerry Wilson, Esq., filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP and two Emanuel County voters. The lawsuit asserted that the current district boundaries for...
On February 12, 2016, the Lawyers’ Committee, with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Steptoe & Johnson LLP, and other civil rights organizations and law firms, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging a...
On February 3, 2016, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, along with co-counsel Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, filed an amicus curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court in the case of Wittman v. Personhuballah. The case involves Virginia’s...
On November 3, 2015, the Lawyers’ Committee, along with pro bono co-counsel at Bryan Cave LLP in Atlanta, Georgia, filed a voting rights lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia in Macon against the Hancock County Board of...
On June 17, 2008, a coalition of organizations including the Lawyers’ Committee submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in this litigation concerning the redistricting of the North Carolina House of Representatives, and the requirements for demonstrating a...
