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Litigation

 

Georgia NAACP v. Georgia

Case Information

Date Filed: April 20, 2017
State: Georgia
Issue: Voter Registration
Courts that Heard this Case: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Case 1:17-cv-01397)

Issue:

Whether Georgia's runoff election voter registration procedure violates the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)

Status:

Complaint and TRO Motion filed 4/20/17. First Amended Complaint filed 4/25/17. Defendants' Response to TRO Motion filed 4/28/17. Order Granting Preliminary Injunction filed 5/4/17. Ordered and adjudged that Plaintiffs recover from Defendant in the ammount of 122,171.54 as reasonable attorney's fees and expenses filed 4/11/18

District Court Documents

Commentary

Edward B. Foley

Gerrymandering as Viewpoint Discrimination: A "Functional Equivalence" Test

Edward B. Foley

A First Amendment test for identifying when a map is functionally equivalent to a facially discriminatory statute.

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In the News

Daniel P. Tokaji

This is why US election ballots routinely go missing

Professor Dan Tokaji was quoted in USA Today about the prevalence of missing election ballots.

 

"Most of the time, it just goes unreported because it doesn't affect the result," Tokaji said. 


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Info & Analysis

Supreme Court Finds Partisan Gerrymandering Claims to be Non-Justiciable Political Questions

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion on Thursday determining that claims of partisan gerrymandering are political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts. The opinion resolved disputes originating in North Carolina and Maryland, in the cases of Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek.

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