Court Case

In this amicus brief, the Brennan Center urges the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to uphold a district court ruling that the Fourth Amendment prohibits seizure and search of cell site location information without a warrant.

Common Cause, the North Carolina Democratic Party, and a group of North Carolina voters filed a lawsuit, Common Cause v. Rucho, raising partisan gerrymandering allegations over the state’s 2016 remedial congressional map.

In this amicus brief, the Brennan Center urges the Supreme Court to hear a case on whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits seizure and search of cell site location information without a warrant.

On September 22, the League of Women Voters filed suit to challenge North Carolina’s 2016 remedial congressional map as a partisan gerrymander.

Cooper v. Harris, formerly known as McCrory v. Harris, is a Supreme Court decision affirming a three-judge panel’s ruling that North Carolina’s 2011 congressional map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The Brennan Center, along with co-counsel from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, filed an amicus brief supporting the Plaintiffs-Appellees and asking the Court to affirm the panel’s decision.

The Brennan Center, along with co-counsel Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, represented the League of Women Voters of Florida in a lawsuit seeking to extend Florida’s voter registration deadline in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. On October 12, a federal judge issued an order extending the registration deadline to Tuesday, October 18.

The Brennan Center and co-counsel filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth District in support of Montana’s campaign contribution limits.

Harris v. Cooper is an appeal to the Supreme Court of a three-judge panel’s decision to reject a claim that the remedial congressional adopted by North Carolina’s legislature was a partisan gerrymander. In February, a three-judge panel in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina struck down the General Assembly’s 2011 congressional map because the court found that the map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Although the court directed the legislature to modify the congressional districts, the plaintiffs contend that the 2016 remedial map drawn by the legislature resulted in an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. In a summary order issued on June 28, 2018, the Supreme Court affirmed the lower court’s decision.

The Brennan Center filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing the court should grant the petition for certiorari.

On May 20, the Brennan Center filed a brief supporting the plaintiffs’ opposition to the motion to dismiss. The case was formerly known as Shapiro v. McManus.