Actions & Cases
Explore our cases and actions, including relevant court documents.
Moore v. Harper
The Election Law Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of law professors exploring doctrinal and practical problems in the adoption of the so-called “independent state legislature theory” (“ISLT”) would cause in all facets of U.S. elections.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity v. Raffensperger
The Election Law Clinic, along with Fair Districts GA, filed a friends of the court brief in support of Plaintiffs in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity v. Raffensperger to demonstrate that it is not hard to draw Georgia districts that respect the legislature’s discretionary choices while complying with the Voting Rights Act.
Harper v. Hall and NCLCV v. Hall
The Election Law Clinic, along with local counsel Poyner Spruill LLP, today filed a friend of the court brief (amicus brief) on behalf of Professor Charles Fried, the Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. The brief asked the North Carolina Supreme Court to find partisan gerrymandering justiciable under the state’s Constitution.
West Virginia v. EPA
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court agreed to hear West Virginia v. EPA, a case challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases in certain ways. Several petitioners invoke the major questions doctrine, which holds that courts should not defer to agencies’ statutory interpretation on questions of “vast economic or political significance.” The Court’s decision could also revive the nondelegation doctrine—a nearly defunct principle that Congress cannot delegate to regulatory agencies in overly broad terms.
Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission
The Wisconsin Legislature and its allies have asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to redraw the State’s map in a way that would solidify the State’s 2011 partisan gerrymander for the next decade. ELC is representing five plaintiffs from Gill v. Whitford as amici curiae who want to ensure that the Wisconsin Supreme Court does not perpetuate the gerrymander under the guise of a “least-change” approach.
Staples v. DeSantis
Following a lawsuit filed by the Election Law Clinic, Governor Ron DeSantis called special elections for three majority-Black legislative districts, to be held in early 2022.
STATUS: Active
UPDATED: October 18, 2021