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25-6770 Heath W. Gray v. Pennsylvania Department of State Pennsylvania 2026-02-10 Pending IFP first-amendment government-redress suffrage supreme-court-certiorari taxation-without-representation voting-rights Would this Honorable High Court, please REMAND this suffrage rights appeal to the Pennyslvania Supreme Court to adjudicate my "No Taxation Without Rep…
25-916 OCA - Greater Houston v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response Waived disability-assistance election-law mail-voting statutory-interpretation voter-support voting-rights Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act provides that "[a]ny voter who requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to re…
25-904 La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending Response Waived disability-rights election-law mail-ballot preemption voter-assistance voting-rights Whether Section 208 preempts a state law that prohibits eligible voters from compensating their chosen assisters or from choosing trusted assisters wh…
25-836 Rockland County, New York, et al. v. New York, et al. New York 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived county-administration due-process election-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment voting-rights This petition presents federal constitutional questions concerning Equal Protection and voting-rights limits on a state's authority to selectively res…
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…
25A674 Arizona, et al. v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Application ballot-collection election-law election-procedures ninth-circuit voter-registration voting-rights Question not identified.
25A602 Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Application election-regulations fifth-circuit minority-voting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted Texas voting assistance laws in a manner that potentially restricts minority voters' access to electo…
25A605 OCA - Greater Houston, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Application certiorari election-law fifth-circuit injunction senate-bill-1 voting-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted Texas Senate Bill 1 in a manner that potentially infringes on voting rights and electoral access
25A556 La Union del Pueblo Entero, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-13 Application equal-protection fifth-circuit redistricting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights Whether the Voting Rights Act and Equal Protection Clause prohibit Texas from enacting voter assistance restrictions that disproportionately burden mi…
25-5872 Ramon Jackson v. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights election-law national-voter-registration-act secretary-of-state voter-registration voting-rights 1. Did the Michigan Secretary of State violate the Plaintiff Constitutional or Statutory voting rights by registering the Plaintiff to vote without th…
25-253 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota Eighth Circuit 2025-09-04 Pending Amici (12)Relisted (2) civil-rights implied-right-of-action private-plaintiffs section-1983 statutory-interpretation voting-rights Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, is enforceable by private plaintiffs through 42 U.S.C. § 1983, an implied right of acti…
25-147 Michael J. Polelle v. Cord Byrd, Florida Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived closed-primary election-law equal-protection first-amendment political-association voting-rights 1. Does the Petitioner have standing to sue the Florida Secretary of State in his official capacity as chief election officer of the state for any vio…
24-1277 Pamela L. Bickford v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2025-06-16 Denied administrative-procedures constitutional-interpretation election-law hava-compliance state-legislature voting-rights Whether the failure of the Alaska Legislature to establish state-based administrative procedures violates the Constitution and the Help America Vote A…
24-1260 Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State v. Republican National Committee, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-10 Granted Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) ballot-submission election-day-statutes federal-preemption mail-in-voting state-election-law voting-rights Whether the federal election-day statutes preempt a state law that allows ballots cast by federal election day to be received by election officials af…
24-1102 Citizens for Constitutional Integrity v. Census Bureau, et al. District of Columbia 2025-04-24 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-procedure-act agency-action congressional-apportionment mandamus-act voting-rights Whether the Administrative Procedure Act and Mandamus Act provide procedural rights to challenge the Secretary of Commerce's apportionment report unde…
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?
24A407 Susan Beals, Commissioner, et al. v. Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete Amici (7) ballot-access constitutional-challenge election-law immigrant-voting voter-registration voting-rights Whether Virginia's election laws governing voter registration and ballot access unconstitutionally burden immigrant and minority voters' fundamental r…
24A408 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Faith Genser, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete Amici (5) ballot-access candidate-eligibility constitutional-interpretation election-law state-supreme-court voting-rights Whether a state supreme court's interpretation of state election law regarding ballot access and candidate eligibility violates federal constitutional…
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…
24A231 OCA-Greater Houston, et al. v. Kim Ogg Fifth Circuit 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete election-law ex-parte-young first-amendment fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity voting-rights Whether a local district attorney can be sued under Ex Parte Young for prospective injunctive relief challenging the constitutionality of state electi…
24-160 Juan Dalmau Ramirez v. Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 2024-08-14 Denied Response Waived ballot-design constitutional-rights first-amendment freedom-of-association puerto-rico-status voting-rights Whether the 2024 Puerto Rico Plebiscite ballot violates constitutional rights by omitting a 'Commonwealth' voting option
24A164 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-09 Denied Amici (5) ballot-drop-box constitutional-challenge election-law election-procedures state-regulation voting-rights Whether state election laws governing ballot drop box procedures and accessibility violate constitutional protections of voting rights
24-5257 Miguel Aguilar, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2024-08-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-apportionment minority-representation redistricting voting-rights Whether a state's legislative apportionment scheme violates constitutional equal protection principles by potentially diluting minority voting power
24A46 Pennsylvania State Conference of NAACP Branches, et al. v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete ballot-access circuit-split federal-statute mail-ballot materiality-provision voting-rights Whether the Materiality Provision of federal voting rights law prohibits excluding mail ballots due to immaterial paperwork errors beyond voter regist…
23-1369 John Rust v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State, et al. Indiana 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-association primary-election primary-elections state-election-laws voter-registration voting-rights Whether the Affiliation Statute violates Indiana citizens' right to freely associate with the political party of their choosing pursuant to the First …
23A1136 Christi Jacobsen, Montana Secretary of State v. Montana Democratic Party, et al. Montana 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete election-law elections-clause judicial-review legislative-authority state-constitution voting-rights Whether a state supreme court impermissibly interferes with a state legislature's election law authority when applying judicial scrutiny to election r…
23A1142 Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. v. Phillip Callais, et al. Louisiana 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete congressional-map constitutional-challenge equal-protection racial-gerrymander redistricting voting-rights Whether Louisiana's congressional redistricting plan violates the Equal Protection Clause by constituting an unconstitutional racial gerrymander
23-7710 William Anderson v. L'Oreal Snell, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ballot-access ballot-access-laws civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment signature-challenge voter-disenfranchisement voting-rights Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violate Petitioner's Constitutional Rights by affirming the Lower Court's order Removing Petitioner's Name from the…
23-7645 Antrell Teen v. Illinois Illinois 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing voting-rights Whether the standards used by the Ninth Circuit in the Brouwer v. Raffensperger case violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments
23A992 David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge county-commission equal-protection redistricting representation voting-rights Whether a county board of commissioners' voting procedures and redistricting decisions violate constitutional protections of equal representation and …
23-1172 Kristen Lovell, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Georgia 2024-05-01 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived constitutional-rights critical-infrastructure election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment georgia-constitution ninth-amendment official-immunity official-misconduct sovereign-immunity voting-rights Whether the granting of the defense of sovereign or official immunity for employees or officials that are acting outside of the authority of their off…
23-998 Melanie Jerusalem v. Louisiana Department of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response Waived article-iii civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process election-law electronic-voting federal-elections standing voting-rights Did the Fifth Circuit err in ruling a registered Louisiana voter for a federal election sustained insufficient injury in fact under Article III of the…
23-990 George Dunbar Prewitt, Jr. v. Yazoo County, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction racial-equality reconstruction-acts removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-court voting-rights Whether the district court and the 5th circuit panel acted in the total absence of subject-matter-jurisdiction by illegally assuming the subject-matte…
23-6816 Wayne Resper v. YesCare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied IFP ballot-access civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process election-law election-procedures federal-court removal standing state-court voting-rights Whether the Circuit Court for Alleghany County, Maryland should have given the pro se petitioner an opportunity to challenge the removal of his compla…
23A764 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-21 Presumed Complete certiorari eleventh-circuit mandate redistricting supreme-court-precedent voting-rights Whether the Eleventh Circuit's panel opinion conflicts with the Supreme Court's precedents in Thornburg v. Gingles and Allen v. Milligan regarding vot…
23-890 In Re Batia Zareh 2024-02-20 Denied Response Waived bilingual-election bilingual-requirements circuit-split compassionate-release constitutional-discrimination constitutional-law due-process election-law election-requirements equal-protection equal-protection 23-88" extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act language-minority mandatory-minimum-sentence national-origin sentencing-reduction voting-rights Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be 'ext Whether the Bilingual Election Requirements (52 U.S.C. §10503) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. §10301, et. sec.) are unconstitutional
23A523 Dickinson Bay Area Branch NAACP, et al. v. Galveston County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-12-08 Presumed Complete civil-rights discrimination lulac minority-representation naacp voting-rights Whether local civil rights organizations have standing to challenge voting restrictions that potentially discriminate against minority voters
23-612 Joseph Daniel Cascino, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State Fifth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) age-discrimination constitutional-law due-process election-law mail-in-voting standing twenty-sixth-amendment voting-rights Does Texas's restriction of no-excuse mail-in voting to individuals aged '65 years or older on election day' violate the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
23A519 Raul Mendez v. Ada Community Libraries Board of Trustees, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-07 Presumed Complete civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se voting-rights Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly dismissed a pro se civil rights complaint by failing to address First Amendment, voting rights, and Equal Protect…
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…
23A476 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split eighth-circuit legislative-privilege mandamus subpoena-power voting-rights Whether state legislative privilege is an absolute bar to discovery in civil rights litigation involving potential voting rights violations or whether…
23A452 Ben Toma, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-11-20 Presumed Complete discovery judicial-review legislative-immunity legislative-privilege state-legislators voting-rights Whether state legislators can invoke legislative privilege to shield their deliberative processes and communications from discovery in voting rights l…
23-523 Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County v. Lynna Monell, Clerk, Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County, et al. California 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived ballot-access candidate-restrictions civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny equal-protection freedom-of-association political-association term-limits voting-rights Does a term limit that bans incumbents from ever running for reelection merit heightened scrutiny?
23-500 James Gimenez v. Franklin County, Washington, et al. Washington 2023-11-14 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) at-large-elections constitutional-law constitutional-scrutiny election-systems equal-protection gerrymandering racial-polarization redistricting voting-rights Whether the Washington Voting Rights Act is subject to strict scrutiny
23-5989 In Re Kevin McKenna 2023-11-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP case-history civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-petition standing supreme-court voting-rights Should this Court find that the First Amendment prohibits the government from interfering with a person's right to vote or 'adel vsti o liberally ares…
23-5386 Bryant Matthew Parker v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction legal-procedure petition-review reasons-for-writ standing statement-of-case voting-rights Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Plaintiff's Yoakum County Protest Voting Restrictions Act was unconstitutional, …
23-5308 James Renwick Manship v. Susan Beals, Commissioner Virginia 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights election-integrity electronic-voting first-amendment free-speech grand-jury petition petition-rights voting-machines voting-rights QUESTIONS PRESENTED RELATED TO FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF HONEST VOTE (FREE SPEECH) & PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES TO A GRAND JURY
23-96 Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-08-02 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-4 constitutional-authority contempt-sanction county-boards-of-elections dominion-voting dominion-voting-systems election-board election-law election-procedures pennsylvania-general-assembly pennsylvania-supreme-court voting-rights Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in holding Petitioners, County Board of Elections, in contempt for conducting an inspection of voting machines …
23-59 Larry Eugene Clark v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process election-integrity election-machines federal-law standing state-law voting voting-rights Whether injured voters have standing to challenge the use of uncertified voting machines that may have compromised the 2020 election
23-49 In Re Betty Ayers, et al. 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-conflict due-process election-integrity federal-law hava-compliance standing state-law treason voting voting-rights Whether the Tennessee State Supreme Court's decision conflicts with other State Supreme Courts and denies Petitioners' right of suffrage and to redres…
23-5093 German Alexis Arjona v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied IFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection first-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-provisions supreme-court voting-rights Whether a specific limitation on the right to vote violates the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
22-7886 Ramon Jackson v. Mike Duggan, Mayor of the City of Detroit, et al. Michigan 2023-06-28 Denied IFP bond-issuance civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection headlee-amendment municipal-bonds municipal-finance voting-rights Did the defendant(s) violate the plaintiff voting rights which are protected by the Headlee Amendment and Michigan Constitution 1963, Article 9, Secti…
22-1088 John T. Morris v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response Waived accumulated-knowledge article-1-section-2 constitutional-interpretation election-integrity first-amendment frequent-elections political-rights redistricting voter-participation voting-rights Are frequent elections implied in Article 1, Section 2 Clause 1 of the United States Constitution that were meant by the Framers of the Constitution t…
22-7191 Terrence Hammock v. Gail Watts, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP civil-rights equal-protection racial-discrimination redistricting standing voting-rights Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in upholding the state's congressional map as constitutional despite evidence of racial gerrymandering
22-6082 In Re George W. Buford, III 2022-11-16 Denied IFP adjudication civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-crisis due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions voting-rights Question not identified
22-420 In Re Ohio, ex rel. Terpsehore P. Maras 2022-11-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge election-law election-observers equal-protection fundamental-right-to-vote independent-candidates party-representation political-parties strict-scrutiny voting-rights Whether Ohio law allowing for Republican and Democratic Parties' election observers while requiring Independent candidates to obtain consent from four…
22-412 Roy Harness, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State Fifth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (17) civil-rights constitutional-law en-banc-review equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination voting-rights Whether any amendment to a law originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose, no matter how minor the amendment and no matte…
22-414 Timothy R. Bonner, et al. v. Leigh Chapman, in Her Official Capacity as Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-4 constitutional-interpretation election-procedure elections-clause federal-elections fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting pennsylvania-law standing state-regulation voting-rights Does Pennsylvania's Act 77 no-excuse mail-in voting law violate Article I § 4 of the United States Constitution?
21-1596 Kyle Ardoin, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. v. Press Robinson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Amici (3) civil-rights gingles-preconditions preliminary-injunction racial-gerrymandering redistricting section-2 voting-rights Whether the district court erred in its application of the Gingles preconditions and in ordering a racial gerrymander as a remedy
21-7890 Michael E. Bargo, Jr. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech legislative-procedure legislative-process legislative-rules representative-rights separation-of-powers standing voting-rights Whether the eight rules of the IL 102nd General Assembly cited in this case violate and nullify Petitioner Michael E. Bargo Jr's. right to have his el…
21-1271 Timothy K. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, et al. v. Rebecca Harper, et al. North Carolina 2022-03-21 Judgment Issued Amici (74)Relisted (3) constitutional-interpretation election-regulations elections-clause legislative-power redistricting separation-of-powers state-judiciary state-legislature voting-rights Whether a State's judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing the 'Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives .. . prescri…
21-1068 Lion Raisins, Inc., et al. v. Karen Ross California 2022-02-01 Denied Amici (1) agricultural-cooperative bloc-voting electoral-influence government-objectives government-power jurisprudence private-association rational-basis-review voter-apportionment voting-rights Whether this Court's voting rights jurisprudence permits the government to empower a private association (here, an agricultural cooperative) to cast a…
21-718 Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, et al. v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights decolonization disenfranchisement due-process insular-cases self-governance territories-clause voting-rights Whether Petitioners have standing to challenge the constitutionality of PROMESA
21-6057 Eugene Korte v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination standing voting-rights Question not identified
20-8012 Jack Vo v. California California 2021-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law judicial-review public-interest standing supreme-court-discretion supreme-court-review voting-rights Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review a case of public importance that was denied consideration by the lower courts
20-1510 Louis Tafuto v. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights electoral-college equal-protection free-speech gerrymandering injury-in-fact standing vote-dilution voting-rights Is a diluted vote an injury-in-fact when Plaintiff is in a 'packed' Electoral College district (New York) in a U.S. federal election?
20-1244 Barbara Tully, et al. v. Paul Okeson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) absentee-voting age-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment twenty-sixth-amendment voting-rights Whether Indiana violates the Twenty-Sixth Amendment by giving voters age 65 and older the right to cast an absentee ballot by mail while requiring oth…
20-7263 Darryl A. Robinson v. Yee Sixth Circuit 2021-02-26 Dismissed IFP equal-protection first-amendment gerrymandering redistricting standing voting-rights Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the plaintiffs lack standing to challenge the constitutionality of Michigan's congressional districtin…
20-1100 Paul Rodriguez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) electoral-college equal-protection first-amendment political-parties presidential-election summary-affirmance vote-dilution voting-rights Do the Equal Protection Clause and the First Amendment prohibit California's winner-take-all system for appointing presidential electors?
20-887 In Re L. Lin Wood, Jr. 2021-01-04 Denied civil-rights due-process election-law elections equal-protection legislative-authority signature-verification standing vote-dilution voting-rights Whether the Petitioner/voter has standing to challenge state action based on the vote-dilution
20-809 Kelli Ward v. Constance Jackson, et al. Arizona 2020-12-15 Denied ballot-inspection civil-rights due-process election electoral-college electoral-count-act fourteenth-amendment presidential-electors standing state-courts voting-rights Does the Electoral Count Act impose unconstitutional deadlines on state courts' final determination of disputes over presidential electors?
20-799 L. Lin Wood, Jr. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection legislative-authority signature-verification standing state-legislature vote-dilution voting-rights Whether a voter has standing to challenge state action based on vote dilution
20-6105 Gabriel Oliver v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings voting-rights Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
20-463 Robert A. Heghmann v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response Waived candidate-rights civil-rights congressional-elections congressional-primaries democratic-party election-law political-parties racial-discrimination standing voter-standing voting-rights Does a voter have standing to challenge racial discrimination by the Democratic Party in Congressional Primary Elections?
20-109 Scott Schwab, Secretary of State of Kansas v. Steven Wayne Fish, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) citizenship-requirement constitutional-law election-law federal-preemption national-voter-registration-act voter-registration voting-rights Whether the United States Constitution prohibits Kansas from requiring applicants to provide proof of United States citizenship when registering to vo…
19-1399 Shelby Advocates for Valid Elections, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process election-security election-standing equal-protection maladministration rule-12b1 rule-12b6 standing voting-rights voting-system Do the plaintiffs have standing to challenge their county's unfair voting system?
19-1389 Texas Democratic Party, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-18 Granted Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) age-discrimination constitutional-amendment constitutional-law due-process election-law mail-in-ballot mail-in-voting standing twenty-sixth-amendment voter-access voting-rights Does Texas's limitation of the right to cast a no-excuse mail-in ballot to only voters who are '65 years of age or older on election day' violate the …
19-1257 Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Judgment Issued Amici (12) 15th-amendment ballot-collection discriminatory-burden disparate-impact election-integrity election-law fifteenth-amendment out-of-precinct-policy precinct-voting provisional-ballots section-2 voter-suppression voting-rights voting-rights-act Does Arizona's out-of-precinct policy violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act?
19-1258 Arizona Republican Party, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Judgment Issued ballot-harvesting election-law equal-opportunity precinct-voting racial-discrimination racial-minorities voter-fraud voter-participation voting-practices voting-rights voting-rights-act-section-2 Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act compels states to authorize voting practices used disproportionately by racial minorities
19-1219 Respect Washington v. Burien Communities for Inclusion, et al. Washington 2020-04-16 Denied Response Waived ballot ballot-access civil-rights election-law first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process political-speech referendum voting voting-rights Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to vote on an initiative that meets all time, place and manner requirements for the initiat…
19-8232 William Lynn Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-mapping due-process equal-protection jury-selection minority-representation racial-discrimination racial-gerrymandering standing voting-rights Whether the Petitioner is another example of the deprivation of the Equal Protection Clause which forbids the State's to exclude black persons from se…
19-1199 Don Higginson v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived at-large-voting california-voting-rights-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-elections racial-polarization voting-rights voting-rights-act Whether the California Voting Rights Act violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-8113 Johnny R. Andoe v. Joe Biden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms government-restrictions individual-rights natural-born-citizens personal-liberty second-amendment voting-rights Is it constitutional to discriminate between natural-born U.S. persons?
19-7795 Robert Alan Foster v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery-violation due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination school-desegregation sixth-amendment standing voting-rights Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause
19-974 William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State Sixth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Amici (2) ballot-initiative ballot-initiatives civil-rights constitutional-law election-law first-amendment free-speech strict-scrutiny subject-matter-restriction subject-matter-restrictions voting-rights Whether the First Amendment and strict scrutiny apply to subject matter restrictions on ballot initiatives
19-7158 Isaac Montanez v. McDean, LLC Second Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection free-speech retaliation voting-rights wrongful-termination Whether the defendant was discriminated against on the basis of race in the denial of their right to vote
19-827 Territory of Guam, et al. v. Arnold Davis Ninth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 15th-amendment fifteenth-amendment guam native-inhabitants plebiscite political-status self-determination voting-rights Whether the Fifteenth Amendment permits Guam to invite only 'native inhabitants of Guam' to participate in a potential political-status plebiscite tha…
19-754 Estate of Norman Robert Knight, Jr., Deceased, et al. v. Beatrice E. Whitten, as a Special Administrator, et al. South Carolina 2019-12-12 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-common-law judicial-qualification one-person-one-vote probate probate-court service-of-process standing voting-rights Whether lower courts erred by acting on a petition filed and served without summons as required
19-687 League of United Latin American Citizens, et al. v. Edwards Aquifer Authority, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights electoral-districts equal-protection franchise-elections local-government one-person-one-vote rational-basis-review salyer-ball-exception voting-rights Whether the Salyer-Ball exception to the one-person, one-vote population equality requirement ought to apply to local government representatives chose…
19-474 Respect Washington v. Global Neighborhood, et al. Washington 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived agenda-setting ballot ballot-access civil-rights first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process injunction sanctuary-city standing voting voting-rights Whether the First Amendment protects citizens' interests in voting on an initiative that has met all time, place and manner requirements for an initia…
19-465 Peter B. Chiafalo, Levi Jennet Guerra, and Esther Virginia John v. Washington Washington 2019-10-09 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-discretion constitutional-rights due-process electoral-college first-amendment presidential-election presidential-electors standing state-law voting voting-rights Whether a State can legally enforce how a presidential elector casts his or her ballot and penalize an elector for exercising constitutional discretio…
19-275 Frederic C. Schultz v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-suffrage international-law international-treaties presidential-election treaty-law voting-rights Do citizens of the United States of America have the right to 'equal and universal suffrage'?
18-9826 In Re Ellis Keyes 2019-06-27 Denied IFP ballot-access bar-association bar-exam civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-candidates licensing open-government right-to-work standing state-licensing voting-rights Under what authority is license to practice law or not?
18A1288 Steve Chabot, et al. v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, et al. Ohio 2019-06-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge district-court election-law gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights Whether partisan gerrymandering claims present a justiciable federal question that federal courts can adjudicate
18A1255 Lee Chatfield, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-06-03 Presumed Complete first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-districts partisan-gerrymandering political-discrimination voting-rights Whether partisan gerrymandering of congressional and state legislative districts violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments by intentionally dilutin…
18A1242 Larry Householder, et al. v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, et al. Ohio 2019-05-30 Presumed Complete congressional-districts election-law gerrymandering judicial-review redistricting voting-rights Whether partisan gerrymandering claims present a justiciable federal question that federal courts can adjudicate
18-1470 Jim Feehan v. Rick Marcone, et al. Connecticut 2019-05-24 Denied bush-v-gore constitutional-rights due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection equal-protection-clause retroactive-standard right-to-vote voting-rights Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court erred in disregarding the equal protection principles applied in Bush v. Gore and requiring proof of intentional…
18-9168 Melissa Owens v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights controlled-substances criminal-history drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection plea-agreement racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing sentencing-guidelines voting-rights Whether the district court erred in calculating the defendant's criminal history score and sentencing range under the United States Sentencing Guideli…
18-8335 Lamar C. Chapman, III v. Barack Hussein Obama District of Columbia 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ballot-access civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-districts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech religious-freedom signature-requirements standing takings voting-rights Whether the lower courts erred in violating Appellant's right to the free exercise of religion
18-7729 Earnest S. Harris v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP attorney-discipline civil-rights court-rules disbarment due-process election-law equal-protection habeas-corpus incarceration professional-conduct suspension voting voting-rights Is the State of California's and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's involation of the U.S. Constitution's Amendment 3 by pr…
18-7244 Vidal Licea Morales v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing voting-rights Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections
18-7225 Neil Gillespie v. Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. Florida 2019-01-03 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment administrative-procedure buyer-incompetence civil-rights constitutional-challenge disciplinary-functions due-process federal-regulation foia foreclosure home-equity-conversion-mortgage hud-jurisdiction lawyers-guild mortgage-law nonlawyer-ownership older-americans-act privacy-rights pro-se-litigation securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 standing the-florida-bar trial-by-jury unlicensed-practice-of-medicine void-for-vagueness voting-rights Is the federal HECM reverse mortgage program unconstitutional?
18-6603 David Johnson v. Indiana Indiana 2018-11-07 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings voting-rights Whether the Indiana Supreme Court erred in upholding the constitutionality of Indiana's Voter ID law under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
18-409 Lewis Y. Liu v. Paul Ryan, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights comity-clause congress constitutional-standing due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-voting-right equal-voting-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing voting-rights Whether the Electoral College clause (1787) has violated the Comity clause (1787) and three subsequent amendments, the First (1789), the Fifth (1789) …
18-6108 Sontay T. Smotherman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process election-integrity jury-selection records-inspection standing voting-rights Whether a defendant has an unqualified right to inspect voter selection records in order to aid in the preparation of a constitutional claim
18-379 Ellis Keyes v. Edison G. Banks, II Kentucky 2018-09-24 Denied Response Waived bill-of-rights bona-fides civil-rights due-process elections free-speech good-faith literacy-test voting-rights Whether a state's right-to-work law can subject a candidate to a mandatory literacy test as a condition of ballot access, abridging voting rights
18-341 Billie Faye Keyes, et al. v. Philip Gunn, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response Waived ballot-disenfranchisement civil-rights due-process election-integrity election-interference equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legislative-misconduct standing voting voting-rights If state legislators intentionally discard ballots to swing an election, may the disenfranchised voters bring suit in federal court to enforce the gua…
18-123 In Re Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. 2018-07-27 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2284 chief-circuit-judge civil-rights district-court district-judge due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legislative-apportionment mandamus motion-to-dismiss redistricting standing standing-doctrine three-judge-district-court three-judge-panel voting-rights Challenge to legislative district apportionment, three-judge district court, standing
18-5325 Lena Lasher v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing voting-rights Whether a district court must grant an evidentiary hearing on a prisoner's collateral attack claims