Senal v. City of Quincy
ELC is representing voters in Quincy, Massachusetts, who are challenging the city’s unlawful refusal to certify their signatures on an initiative petition. The petition seeks to place questions on the upcoming Quincy municipal election ballot. The city’s actions interfere with the plaintiffs’ right to participate in direct democracy.
Callais v. Landry
Along with the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Louisiana, the Louisiana Justice Institute, Louisiana attorney and John Adcock, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, the Election Law Clinic represents Louisiana voters and civil rights groups as proposed intervenors in a lawsuit that challenges the second majority-Black district in the state’s newly enacted congressional map. A result of Robinson v. Landry, this second district was drawn to comply with the Voting Rights Act to give Black voters an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.
Nairne v. Landry
Together with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the ACLU of Louisiana, Cozen O’Connor, and Louisiana attorneys Ron Wilson and John Adcock, the Election Law Clinic represents Louisiana voters and civil rights groups in a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s state House and Senate district maps under the Voting Rights Act. The discriminatorily drawn state house maps deny Black voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and elect candidates of their choice.
Robinson v. Landry
Together with the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Louisiana Louisiana attorney John Adcock, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, the Election Law Clinic represents Louisiana voters and civil rights groups in a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s congressional map under the Voting Rights Act. The discriminatory map fails to create a second majority-Black congressional district, diluting the voting power of Black Louisiana voters.
Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP v. City of Jacksonville
The Jacksonville City Council unconstitutionally packed four City Council districts and two School Board districts with Black voters, and stripped Black voters out of adjacent districts, diminishing Black political influence in the City.