Harris v. DeSoto County, Mississippi
The Election Law Clinic, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the ACLU of Mississippi, represent Mississippi voters, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and the NAACP Unit in DeSoto County, Mississippi,in a lawsuit challenging local district maps under the Voting Rights Act. District maps passed by the DeSoto County, Mississippi Board of Supervisors deny Black voters equal opportunity to participate in the political process and to elect candidates of their choice.
McClure v. Jefferson County Commission
ELC, along with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, represents a voter and organizations in an action to challenge Jefferson County, Alabama’s racially gerrymandered County Commission district lines. The County map packs Black voters into two districts, stereotyping them by race and reducing their political power.
Callais v. Landry
Along with the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Louisiana, the Louisiana Justice Institute, Louisiana attorney and John Adcock, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, the Election Law Clinic represents Louisiana voters and civil rights groups as proposed intervenors in a lawsuit that challenges the second majority-Black district in the state’s newly enacted congressional map. A result of Robinson v. Landry, this second district was drawn to comply with the Voting Rights Act to give Black voters an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.
Robinson v. Landry
Together with the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Louisiana Louisiana attorney John Adcock, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, the Election Law Clinic represents Louisiana voters and civil rights groups in a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s congressional map under the Voting Rights Act. The discriminatory map fails to create a second majority-Black congressional district, diluting the voting power of Black Louisiana voters.
Western Native Voice v. Jacobsen
ELC is supporting The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Montana, and Native American Rights Fund (NARF) in their challenge of two new Montana laws that hinder Native American participation in state elections.
Nairne v. Landry
Together with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the ACLU of Louisiana, Cozen O’Connor, and Louisiana attorneys Ron Wilson and John Adcock, the Election Law Clinic represents Louisiana voters and civil rights groups in a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s state House and Senate district maps under the Voting Rights Act. The discriminatorily drawn state house maps deny Black voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and elect candidates of their choice.
Serratto v. Town of Mount Pleasant
ELC, along with Abrams Fensterman, LLP, are representing five Latino voters in a lawsuit challenging the at-large elections for Mount Pleasant Town Board as a violation of the New York Voting Rights Act. The at-large system dilutes the votes of Latino members of the community and denies them an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.
Clarke v. Wisconsin Elections Commission
ELC, along with Law Forward, Stafford Rosenbaum, Campaign Legal Center, and Arnold & Porter are representing nineteen Wisconsin voters in a lawsuit challenging gerrymandered state legislative maps in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. These unfair maps have resulted in skewed representation, violating the Wisconsin constitution.
Citizens Project v. City of Colorado Springs
The ELC is representing Plaintiffs Citizens Project, Colorado Latinos Vote, the League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region, and the Black/Latino Leadership Coalition in a lawsuit challenging the timing of off-cycle municipal elections in the City of Colorado Springs. The City’s unusual practice of holding non-November elections disproportionately impacts Hispanic and Black residents and violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP v. City of Jacksonville
The Jacksonville City Council unconstitutionally packed four City Council districts and two School Board districts with Black voters, and stripped Black voters out of adjacent districts, diminishing Black political influence in the City.
Phillips v. Census Bureau
The Election Law Clinic represents Professor Justin H. Phillips, in an action against the Census Bureau to enforce a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request that seeks data needed to evaluate possible bias in the 2020 Census.
Staples v. DeSantis
Following a lawsuit filed by the Election Law Clinic, Governor Ron DeSantis called special elections for three majority-Black legislative districts, to be held in early 2022.
STATUS: Active
UPDATED: October 18, 2021