Voting rights advocates filed suit in a US District Court to strike down a statewide election law that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of eligible citizens from registering and voting in the 2008 elections. The law bars any Florida citizen from registering to vote if the state cannot match or otherwise validate the driver’s license or Social Security number on a registration form, an error-laden practice struck down in 2006 by a federal judge in Washington State.

A Missouri circuit court rejected an attempt to block an increase in the state's minimum wage for tipped workers.

"Enormous collateral damage” could result in future pro bono and civil rights cases if the U.S. Court of Appeals does not reconsider its recent ruling in Arbor Hill v. County of Albany.

For Immediate Release

May 9, 2007

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