The Al Falah Center brought suit against the Township of Bridgewater, N.J. to compel the township to allow Al Falah to move forward with plans to renovate an existing building for use as a mosque and Islamic community center.
The Brennan Center filed a motion in New York Supreme Court seeking to intervene and help defend New York’s new law ending prison-based gerrymandering in state and local redistricting.
The Brennan Center filed an amicus brief in Wisconsin Prosperity Network, Inc. v. Myse defending the Wisconsin GAB’s administrative judicial disclosure rule.
The Brennan Center, along with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Southern Center for Human Rights, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the American Civil Liberties Union, filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of a petitioner seeking the right to counsel in civil contempt proceedings where he or she faces incarceration.
After an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld Minnesota’s disclosure laws and ban on corporate contributions, the Eighth Circuit granted petitioners’ request for an en banc review, vacating the panel’s prior ruling.
A federal district court in Wisconsin upheld the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s judicial public financing program. In doing so, the court found no merit to plaintiffs’ claims that the law infringed on the free speech rights of Wisconsin residents and political organizations, or their ability to participate vocally in the state’s judicial elections.
The Brennan Center joined Common Cause/NY and Citizens Union in submitting an amicus brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals defending New York state’s election laws. The groups urged the appellate court to uphold the constitutionality of New York’s long-standing disclosure requirements for political committees, and to affirm a district court opinion dismissing the complaint and denying the motion of the National Organization for Marriage for a preliminary injunction.
The Conservative Party and the Working Families party—represented by the Brennan Center for Justice and the law firm of Emery Celli Brinkerhoff & Abady—filed a lawsuit challenging a discriminatory New York State policy for counting political party votes under a procedure known as “double voting.”
Loughry v. Tennant et al. and Callaghan v. Tennant et al. are companion cases in and state and federal court, respectively, in which the Brennan Center is defending a West Virginia law that provides public financing for West Virginia Supreme Court elections.