voting-rights-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A890 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-05 Application at-large-elections eleventh-circuit public-service-commission racial-vote-dilution section-2 voting-rights-act Question not identified.
25-918 Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending district-reconfiguration equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2-liability standing voting-rights-act 1. Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to cha…
25-898 William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias Colorado 2026-02-04 Pending district-map equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2 standing voting-rights-act Respondents challenged Washington state legislative district 15 ("LD-15"), alleging it diluted Hispanic votes under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act…
25-890 Arkansas United, et al. v. John Thurston, in His Official Capacity as the Secretary of State of Arkansas et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending declaratory-relief injunctive-relief preemption private-plaintiffs state-actors voting-rights-act 1. Whether private plaintiffs may maintain a suit in equity for declaratory and injunctive relief against state actors to prevent the continued enfo…
25A839 David Tangipa, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2026-01-22 Application Amici (5) election-law fifteenth-amendment minority-representation racial-gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights-act Question not identified.
25-243 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-03 Pending constitutional-interpretation equal-protection legislative-redistricting majority-minority-district racial-gerrymandering voting-rights-act Alabama's 2021 congressional districting plan was preliminarily enjoined under §2 of the Voting Rights Act because it splintered one community of inte…
25A110 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Evan Milligan, et al. Alabama 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act Whether Alabama's 2023 congressional redistricting plan violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause by allegedly discr…
25A109 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Bobby Singleton, et al. Alabama 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act Whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state legislature from drawing congressional districts that allegedly discriminate against minority vo…
23A994 Press Robinson, et al. v. Phillip Callais, et al. Louisiana 2024-05-08 Presumed Complete Amici (1) congressional-districts majority-minority racial-vote-dilution redistricting section-2 voting-rights-act Whether the Voting Rights Act requires a state legislature to draw a congressional district map with a second majority-minority district when the stat…
23A929 Arkansas State Conference NAACP, et al. v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete political-process private-plaintiffs racial-discrimination redistricting section-2 voting-rights-act Whether private citizens can sue to challenge political processes under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act when alleging unequal racial access to the …
23-1060 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied Amici (4) at-large-elections electoral-model policy-interests section-2 state-interests thornburg-v-gingles vote-dilution voting-rights-act Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act requires a plaintiff challenging at-large elections to propose a remedy that does not alter the State's cho…
23-484 Jose Trevino, et al. v. Susan Soto Palmer, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) fourteenth-amendment hispanic-voting-power judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering section-2 section-2-claim three-judge-panel voting-rights-act May a single-judge district court's ruling on a Section 2 claim divest a 3-judge panel of jurisdiction to decide a Fourteenth Amendment claim?
23A206 James Gimenez v. Franklin County, et al. Washington 2023-09-01 Presumed Complete at-large-voting electoral-systems equal-protection-clause racially-polarized-voting strict-scrutiny voting-rights-act Whether a state statute that mandates the dismantling of at-large electoral systems whenever racially polarized voting is demonstrated violates the Eq…
22-47 Kerry Benninghoff, Individually and as Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives v. 2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-07-18 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights district-drawing equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights-act Whether districts drawn for transparently racial reasons, without a VRA-compliance justification, satisfy the Fourteenth Amendment merely because the …
21-1087 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied Amici (1) congressional-districts equal-protection gerrymandering minority-representation preliminary-injunction racial-gerrymandering redistricting section-2 standing voting-rights-act whether-alabama's-2021-congressional-map-violates-the-voting-rights-act
21-693 Nina Rae Ringgold v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied administrative-agency civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-retaliation due-process judicial-disqualification jurisdiction standing supremacy-clause voting-rights-act Whether a state administrative agency lacking federal jurisdiction can be assigned authority of a state court of record
20-1047 Alabama, et al. v. Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-02 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-rights interlocutory-appeal mootness sovereign-immunity vacatur voting-rights-act Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unreviewed and unreviewable decision should be vacated
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?
19-1199 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
18-1214 Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-18 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act apportionment-clause census-act census-citizenship-question census-data commerce-department commerce-secretary constitutional-authority constitutional-provisions district-court-injunction due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-injunction standing statutory-interpretation voting-rights-act Whether the district court erred in enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from reinstating a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census
18-592 Ferguson Florissant School District v. Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response Waived at-large-electoral-system demographic-change electoral-district minority-group minority-voting-rights non-hispanic-white-population numerical-majority section-2 section-2-claim voting-age-population voting-rights-act voting-rights-act-section-2 Does Section 2 of the Voting Right Act of 1965 allow a minority group to bring a claim against a school district's statutorily imposed at-large electo…
25A343 Louisiana, Appellant v. Phillip Callais, et al. Louisiana Presumed Complete congressional-districts constitutional-challenge majority-minority-districts redistricting section-2 voting-rights-act Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional as applied to redistricting and violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments