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Litigation empowers our fight for the issues that matter most to communities: protecting the right to vote, promoting fair and accessible elections, ending big-money corruption, and reinforcing the dignity that people across the country deserve.

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Fair Maps Texas Action Committee v. Abbott (consolidated as LULAC v. Abbott)

Lawsuit challenging Texas’s new legislative and congressional districts as a violation of the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Redistricting / / Case Closed

America First Policy Institute v. Biden

LWVUS intervened in a case on President Biden's Executive Order 14019, which instructed agencies to expand voter registration

Expanding Voter Access / / Case Closed

Hamilton v. Dallas County

Case filed by nine female detention service officers against the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department asserting sex discrimination in scheduling days off

Equal Rights / / Case Active

OCA-Greater Houston v. Esparza (consolidated as La Union Del Pueblo Entero v. Abbott)

Lawsuit challenging Texas' SB 1, which imposed strict ID requirements for mail-in ballots, a restriction on assisting voters who need help completing or returning their ballots

Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Active

Mason-Hobbs v. Texas

Crystal Mason is a Black Texas resident who was unaware she was ineligible to vote while on supervised release and was sentenced to five years in prison for voting in the 2016 election.

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Active

Richardson v. Texas Secretary of State

Lawsuit filed on behalf of voters, MOVE Texas Civic Fund, the League of Women Voters of Texas, Austin Justice Coalition, and Coalition of Texans with Disabilities challenging the state’s signature…

Expanding Voter Access / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Closed

Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson

Whole Woman’s Health, a Texas abortion clinic, sued Texas after the state passed a law banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The law would be enforced through bounties paid to private…

Equal Rights / Reproductive Justice / / Case Closed

Stringer v. Hughs

LWV of Texas filed a federal lawsuit to require Texas to allow online voter registration through the Department of Public Safety’s website

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / Increasing Voter Registration / / Case Closed