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Litigation

 

LULAC v. Harris County

Case Information

Date Filed: October 11, 2012
State: Texas
Issues: Voter Registration, Voting Rights Act
Courts that Heard this Case: United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (Case 4:12-cv-03035)

Issue:

Whether Harris County's rejection of voter registrations solely because the voter's listed address is a commercial address is proper under the Voting Rights Act and a previous consent decree.

Status:

Complaint filed 10/11/12. Answer filed 12/18/12. Unopposed Motion to Dismiss filed 7/29/13. Case Dismissed 8/1/13.

 

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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