felony-disenfranchisement
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-713 | George Barry Hawkins, Jr. v. Glenn A. Youngkin, Governor of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Pending | Response Waived | discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment selective-permissibility voting-rights | Whether Virginia's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr… |
| 24-560 | Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | constitutional-law eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement fourteenth-amendment voting-rights | Does Mississippi's lifetime felony disenfranchisement scheme violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments? |
| 24A277 | Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-18 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement mississippi-constitution voting-rights | Whether Mississippi's lifetime felony disenfranchisement law violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment when it perma… | |
| 23-590 | Bonifacio R. Aleman, et al. v. Andrew G. Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-04 | Denied | Response Waived | discretionary-licensing discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-convictions felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment sixth-circuit voting-rights | Whether Kentucky's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr… |
| 22-6354 | Thomas J. McNulty v. Rose Olivo, et al. | Florida | 2022-12-20 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-law felony-conviction felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment inheritance pro-se-litigation probate-procedure standing | Whether a lawful sole heir/beneficiary to an interstate estate, who is a convicted felon, awaiting the appointment of a personal representative, would… |