Court Case

The Brennan Center submitted an amicus curiae brief supporting Montana’s petition for en banc review of a decision by a 3-judge panel of appellate judges.

The Brennan Center, with the League of Women Voters and Rock the Vote, filed an amicus brief charging that recent changes to Texas law make it extremely difficult for voter registration groups to sign up new voters, violating the First Amendment and the National Voter Registration Act.

The Brennan Center and seven constitutional law and civil procedure scholars filed an amicus brief in support of the Plaintiffs in Lobato v. State, a challenge to Colorado’s educational funding system brought by students, parents, and school districts.

The Brennan Center filed an amicus brief in SEIU v. Husted, urging the Sixth Circuit to affirm a preliminary injunction prohibiting Ohio from discounting provisional ballots with technical deficiences, when those deficiencies are the result of poll-worker error.

The Brennan Center filed an amicus brief in Michigan v. Bailey arguing that incarcerating an individual for their inability to pay criminal justice debt contributes to mass incarceration and may be unconstitutional under Michigan law.

The Brennan Center and the League of Women Voters filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to uphold the University of Texas at Austin’s admissions policies, including the university’s reasonable efforts to encourage diversity in its classrooms.

The Brennan Center is working with Florida Senator Arthenia Joyner, the ACLU of Florida, and the Council of La Raza to mount an administrative challenge to Florida’s non-uniform application of election laws in counties not covered by the Voting Rights Act.

The Brennan Center and other amici argued that FEC exceeded its statutory authority by creating a loophole allowing outside groups to circumvent federal disclosure requirements.

In 2008, California voters enacted Proposition 9, which would severely abridge the provision of counsel to parolees and increase the risk that parolees are wrongly or unnecessarily returned to prison. A group of parolees, along with the Brennan Center and other groups dedicated to ending unnecessary incarceration, are now in fighting in federal court for the continued right to counsel in all revocation hearings. 

The Brennan Center for Justice, the League of Women Voters, and the League of Women Voters of Florida submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging Florida’s voter purge.