Court Case

The Brennan Center filed a lawsuit against the State of Indiana on behalf of the Indiana NAACP and the League of Women Voters of Indiana, challenging Indiana’s voter purge statute. Federal courts preliminarily enjoined a 2017 version of Indiana law. On August 20, 2020, a federal court found that the amended version of the purge law continued to violate federal law. On July 19, 2021, the Seventh Circuit agreed and upheld the lower court’s summary judgment.

The Brennan Center filed an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs who are petitioning the United States Supreme Court to review whether private lawsuits can be brought under the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Brennan Center filed an amicus brief urging the California Supreme Court to find the recently passed Proposition 66 unconstitutional.

In this amicus brief, the Brennan Center urges the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit not to repeat a lower court’s errors in reasoning concerning Fourth Amendment protections for digital data during border searches.

A U.S. Supreme Court appeal in a case contending that the Virginia House of Delegates map is a racial gerrymander.

A challenge to Texas’s 2011 state legislative and congressional redistricting plan contends the maps were drawn with an unconstitutional discriminatory intent as well as violate the Voting Rights Act.

Dickson v. Rucho is a state-court suit that challenges numerous districts in North Carolina’s 2011 legislative and congressional maps as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.

In December of 2016, the Brennan Center sued the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for records about the NYPD’s use of predictive policing technologies after the Department failed to respond adequately to a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request. After a ruling from the court, the Department finally began disclosing responsive documents in November 2018.

North Carolina v. Covington is an appeal by state lawmakers to the U.S. Supreme Court that sought review of a federal three-judge panel’s ruling that twenty-eight of North Carolina’s legislative districts are unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. The lawmakers simultaneously pursued an appeal to vacate the panel’s remedial order calling for special elections in 2017. The Supreme Court affirmed in part the lower court’s order, upholding changes made to remedy racial gerrymandering but reversing the changes made to two state districts redrawn by the legislature in other parts of the state.

A group of Wisconsin residents challenged a 2011 state assembly redistricting plan as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.