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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Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice v. Allen

LWVAL and co-plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit seeking to prevent the Alabama Secretary of State from wrongfully purging voters from the rolls

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / March 14, 2025 / Case Closed

Disability Rights Wisconsin v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (absentee voting for voters with disabilities)

LWVWI filed suit to prohibit the enforcement of state statutes that blocked voters with disabilities from receiving, marking, and returning their absentee ballot electronically

Elections / Expanding Voter Access / Fighting Voter Suppression / March 12, 2025 / Case Closed

United States v. Idaho (consolidated with Moyle v. United States)

LWVUS and nearly 100 other organizations joined an amicus brief filed by the National Women’s Law Center arguing that EMTALA preempts Idaho’s abortion ban

Reproductive Justice / March 5, 2025 / Case Closed

Disability Rights Mississippi v. Fitch

LWVMS, Disability Rights Mississippi, and three voters filed a federal lawsuit against restrictions on voters with disabilities seeking assistance with returning absentee ballots

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / March 3, 2025 / 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 / February 26, 2025 / Case Closed

Arctic Village Council v. Fenumiai

LWVAK and co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in Alaska state court, arguing the lack of a notice and cure process for absentee ballots violated the Alaska Constitution

Elections / Expanding Voter Access / February 24, 2025 / Case Closed

United Sovereign Americans v. Nelson

LWVTX moved to intervene in a case to defend voters against a lawsuit seeking to wrongfully purge voters from the rolls.

Fighting Voter Suppression / January 30, 2025 / Case Closed

Hopkins v. Hosemann (now Watson)

LWVUS, LWVMS, and civil rights partners filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs asserting Mississippi’s permanent felony disenfranchisement law violated the Eighth Amendment

Fighting Voter Suppression / January 27, 2025 / Case Closed

Common Cause Indiana v. City of Anderson Common Council

LWVIN and its co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the Anderson, Indiana, city council asserting its failure to redistrict city council districts violated state and federal law

Redistricting / January 24, 2025 / Case Closed

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 / January 21, 2025 / Case Active