Appeals, Constitutional Challenges, Voting Rights

California Court of Appeal Casts Doubt on Legality of Municipality’s Voter ID Law

Perkins Coie on 3/4/2025

Earlier this month, a California appellate court issued an order in People v. Huntington Beach indicating that California’s intermediate appellate court will hold that there is a limit on the power of localities to manage...more

Second Department Reverses Trial Court and Holds State Voting Rights Act to Be Constitutional

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak on 2/3/2025

On January 30, 2025, the Appellate Division Second Department handed down a decision regarding the constitutionality of the New York State Voting Rights Act. The case, Clarke v. Town of Newburgh, concerned a challenge under...more

Reviewing the 2022 SCOTUS Term

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/31/2024

In this special episode, Akin Supreme Court and appellate practice head Pratik Shah and partner Aileen McGrath look back at the tumultuous 2022 Supreme Court Term....more

Supreme Court Avoids a Decision on Partisan Gerrymandering

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 6/25/2018

In advance of the midterm elections scheduled for November 6, 2018, many states are preparing for, or have already completed, their primary elections. Meanwhile, voters and state officials in Wisconsin and Maryland have...more

Supreme Court Leaves Big Partisan Gerrymandering Questions Undecided: Some Clues About What Happens Next

Sands Anderson PC on 6/22/2018

On Monday the Supreme Court avoided deciding, once again, when, if ever, political gerrymandering violates the Constitution. In Gill v. Whitford, the Supreme Court was presented with startling evidence that Wisconsin...more

Supreme Court Decides Gill v. Whitford

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 6/20/2018

On June 18, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Gill v. Whitford, No. 16-1161, holding that where voters assert that a state’s legislative districts have been improperly gerrymandered, those voters lack...more