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The League of Women Voters

Legal Center

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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Merrill v. Milligan (now Allen v. Milligan)

LWUVS and LWVAL filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs seeking to require Alabama to draw a second majority-Black congressional district under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act

Redistricting / / Case Active

Louisiana v. Department of Commerce

LWV, LWVFL, and LWVNY moved to intervene in a federal lawsuit brought by Louisiana, Kansas, Ohio, and West Virginia seeking to add a citizenship question to the 2030 Census

Fighting Voter Suppression / Redistricting / / Case Active

League of Women Voters of Kansas v. Schwab

LWVKS sued in state court to overturn several laws restricting voter education, mailing advance ballot applications, delivering advance ballots, and tightening signature match requirements

Educating Voters / Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / Increasing Voter Registration / / Case Active

Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP v. Chapman (now Schmidt)

LWVPA and co-plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit to count mail ballots that were returned and properly sealed by the statutory deadline but were rejected for being incorrectly dated

Expanding Voter Access / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Active

Center for Media and Democracy v. Office of the Attorney General

LWVO filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit to compel the Ohio Attorney General to comply with several public records requests.

Money In Politics / / 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

Common Cause v. Raffensperger

LWV Georgia filed a federal lawsuit asserting three congressional districts in metropolitan Atlanta were racially gerrymandered

Fighting Voter Suppression / Redistricting / / Case Active

Planned Parenthood of Utah v. State of Utah

LWV Utah filed an amicus brief in the Utah Supreme Court supporting plaintiffs seeking to overturn Utah’s abortion ban

Reproductive Justice / / Case Active

Colorado Montana Wyoming State Area Conference of the NAACP v. United States Election Integrity Plan

LWV Colorado, the Colorado Montana and Wyoming Area Conference of the NAACP and Mi Familia Vota, filed a lawsuit alleging voter intimidation by the United States Election Integrity Project (USEIP)

Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Active

Kim v. Hanlon

LWV New Jersey filed an amicus brief opposing the state’s county line system in federal court, asserting it was unconstitutional and discriminatory

Elections / / Case Active