Court Cases
League of Women Voters of Florida v. Browning
Case challenging restrictions on third-party voter registration drives.
– 08/06/08
Caperton v. Massey
Justice Brent Benjamin of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia refused to recuse himself from the appeal of a $50 million jury verdict in this case, even though the CEO of the lead defendant spent $3 million supporting his campaign. Did Benjamin’s failure to recuse violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
– 08/04/08
Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri
The Center is defending a Qatari national detained as an “enemy combatant” in the United States. Mr. Al-Marri has been imprisoned without trial and without due process. The case was heard en banc in the Fourth District Court on October 31, 2007, and we are awaiting the decision. A separate, ongoing case is challenging Mr. al-Marri’s conditions of confinement.
– Ongoing
Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
On July 10, 2008, the Brennan Center filed an amicus curiae (or friend of the court brief) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on behalf of a group of former United States ambassadors and diplomats in the case of Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.
– 07/10/08
Rothgery v. Gillespie County, Texas
In this case, the Court holds that the right to counsel under the 6th Amendment exists when the charges are first presented against the defendant in a court of law, even if a prosecutor is not yet involved in that specific proceeding.
– 06/23/08
Florida NAACP v. Browning
A lawsuit filled by the Brennan Center and other voting rights advocates challenging Florida’s requirement that the driver’s license or Social Security number on a registration form be verified before a voter can be registered to vote.
– 06/06/08
Common Cause/Georgia v. Billups
Case challenging the constitutionality of a Georgia law requiring voters to present photo ID as a condition of voting.
– 06/05/08
NAMUDNO v. Mukasey
NAMUDNO v. Gonzales involves a constitutional challenge to the Voting Rights Act, perhaps the country’s single most successful piece of civil rights legislation.
– 05/30/08
North Carolina Right to Life Committee Fund for Independent Political Expenditures v. Leake
The Brennan Center is intervening to help defend the nation’s first voluntary full public financing program for judicial elections.
– 05/01/08