Court Cases
Democracy
Duke v. Leake
The Brennan Center is intervening to help defend the nation’s first voluntary full public financing program for judicial elections.
– 11/05/08
Common Cause of Colorado, et al. v. Coffman
A coalition of voting rights groups sued the Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman claiming he illegally removed over 27,000 voters from the rolls. They filed a temporary restraining order to get those names reinstated and to ensure additional names cannot be removed before Election Day.
– 10/24/08
Van Hollen v. Government Accountability Board
Wisconsin AG, J.B. Van Hollen, claims the state’s Government Accountability Board(GAB) is incompliant with HAVA by not retroactively running database matches and purging voters from registration rolls.
– 10/23/08
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.
– 10/23/08
Republican Party of Ohio v. Secretary Brunner
The Ohio Republican Party sued Ohio’s Secretary of State alleging that various policies adopted by the Secretary violated federal and state law. Among the claims was that Ohio was not in compliance with provisions of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ("HAVA").
– 10/13/08
Green Party of Connecticut v. Jeffrey Garfield
In 2005, the Connecticut General Assembly became the first state legislature in the nation to pass a full public financing law that applies to its own campaigns. The Brennan Center is helping to defend this system and Connecticut’s ban on campaign contributions from lobbyists and state contractors.
– 10/06/08
State of Ohio ex rel. Myles v. Brunner
Brennan Center filed an amicus brief in a case challenging Ohio’s rejection of absentee ballot request forms created by the McCain campaign.
– 10/02/08
Davis v. Federal Election Commission
This case challenges a provision of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) known as the Millionaire’s Amendment that raises the limits on contributions to congressional candidates if their opponent spends above a threshold amount of $350,000 of personal funds on his or her campaign.
– 08/13/08
League of Women Voters of Florida v. Browning
Case challenging restrictions on third-party voter registration drives.
– 08/06/08