Harkenrider v. Hochul (Legal Case) 6/2/2022 LWV New York filed an amicus brief supporting the appointment of an independent expert to redraw New York’s congressional and state legislative districts
Baltimore Cnty. Branch NAACP v. Baltimore County, MD (Legal Case) 5/9/2022 Black voters in Baltimore County challenged the county’s redistricting plan as racial vote dilution in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Gonidakis v. Ohio Redistricting Commission (Legal Case) 4/20/2022 LWV Ohio intervened in a federal lawsuit that asked the court to impose state legislative maps that had been rejected by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Adkins v. Virginia Redistricting Commission (Legal Case) 9/22/2021 LWV Virginia filed an amicus brief in a case challenging HB 1225, which set standards and criteria for the Virginia Redistricting Commission when drawing legislative districts
League of Women Voters of the United States v. Newby (also known as League of Women Voters of the United States v. Harrington) (Legal Case) 9/16/2021 The League of Women Voters of the United States, along with Alabama, Georgia, and Kansas state Leagues, filed a lawsuit opposing a US Election Assistance Commission action to allow three states to…
Stringer v. Hughs (Legal Case) 8/4/2021 LWV of Texas filed a federal lawsuit to require Texas to allow online voter registration through the Department of Public Safety’s website
Americans For Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta (Legal Case) 7/1/2021 The League of Women Voters of California filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold California’s law requiring non-profits to disclose donors on their tax returns.
League of Women Voters of North Carolina v. Rucho (consolidated with Common Cause v. Rucho) (Legal Case) 6/27/2021 LWVNC v. Rucho challenged North Carolina’s 2016 redistricting plan in the Supreme Court as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander and a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
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…
Donald Trump for President, Inc. v. Murphy (Legal Case) 10/22/2020 During the COVID-19 pandemic, LWV of New Jersey intervened to defend bill A4475, which allowed the November 2020 election to be conducted by mail