Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (Legal Case) 6/17/2021 Plaintiff Catholic Social Services (CSS), a foster care agency retained by Philadelphia to provide placement services, sued the city after it stated it would not contract with CSS if it continued to…
Council of American-Islamic Relations Minnesota v. Atlas Aegis, LLC (Legal Case) 2/16/2021 LWV Minnesota and CAIR Minnesota filed a federal lawsuit asserting voter intimidation by Atlas Aegis, a private security firm seeking to hire armed retired service members to guard polling places
New York v. Trump (Legal Case) 12/18/2020 LWV joined a lawsuit filed by New York State and a coalition of state and local governments claiming that the Trump Administration’s attempts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census…
People First of Alabama v. Merrill (Legal Case) 11/16/2020 LWV Alabama filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs seeking to prevent enforcement of restrictive Alabama voting laws during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yazzie v. Hobbs (Legal Case) 10/15/2020 The Navajo Nation of Arizona requests that vote-by-mail ballots received within ten days of Election Day be counted due to the slower postal service and unequal proximity to post offices on the…
June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo (Legal Case) 6/29/2020 Several abortion providers in Louisiana sued to strike down state laws that restricted abortion access by requiring them to be staff members with admitting privileges in hospitals no further than 30…
Bostock v. Clayton County, Ga. (Legal Case) 6/15/2020 LWVUS joined an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court supporting LGBTQI+ employees arguing their termination for sexual orientation violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Shelby County v. Holder (Legal Case) 6/25/2013 Shelby County is a historic legal challenge to key voting protections of the Voting Rights Act, which LWV joined as amicus, arguing that the law’s provision for federal oversight of local election…