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The League of Women Voters

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Litigation empowers our fight for the issues that matter most to communities: protecting the right to vote, promoting fair and accessible elections, ending big-money corruption, and reinforcing the dignity that people across the country deserve.

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Fair Maps Texas Action Committee v. Abbott (consolidated as LULAC v. Abbott)

Lawsuit challenging Texas’s new legislative and congressional districts as a violation of the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Redistricting / / Case Active

Lyons v. Galvin

Lawsuit brought by the Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party alleging a new law expanding early voting was unconstitutional

Elections / Expanding Voter Access / / Case Closed

LWV Wisconsin v. Knudson (2021)

LWV of Wisconsin filed a federal lawsuit to reactivate the voter registrations of 31,854 voters who had been unlawfully purged from the voter registration rolls.

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Closed

Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

LWV Wisconsin intervened in a state court lawsuit brought by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty that sought to ban ballot drop boxes

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Closed

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

The Center for Reproductive Rights challenged Mississippi’s fifteen-week abortion ban in federal court. LWVUS filed an amicus brief with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the…

Equal Rights / Reproductive Justice / / Case Closed

New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen

NYSRPA challenged a New York state law requiring New Yorkers to show a justifiable reason for having a concealed-carry permit to carry guns in public places. The League raised the implications of…

Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Closed

Citizens Project v. Colorado Springs

LWV Pikes Peak Region and partners sued Colorado Springs, asserting odd-year elections in April violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act

Elections / Expanding Voter Access / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Active

Baltimore Cnty. Branch NAACP v. Baltimore County, MD

Black voters in Baltimore County challenged the county’s redistricting plan as racial vote dilution in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Redistricting / / Case Closed

Gonidakis v. Ohio Redistricting Commission

LWV Ohio intervened in a federal lawsuit that asked the court to impose state legislative maps that had been rejected by the Ohio Supreme Court.

Redistricting / / Case Active

Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson

Whole Woman’s Health, a Texas abortion clinic, sued Texas after the state passed a law banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The law would be enforced through bounties paid to private…

Equal Rights / Reproductive Justice / / Case Closed