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Wisconsin Supreme Court refuses to consider voter ID lawsuits
April 17, 2012 by Andrea Bottorff
The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued an order Monday dismissing its review of two lawsuits challenging Wisconsin's controversial voter ID law, leaving state appellate courts to decide whether to lift an injunction against the law. In the two cases, NAACP v. Walker and League of Women Voters v..... [more]
Wisconsin voter ID lawsuits head to state high court
March 28, 2012 by Max Slater
Two lawsuits challenging Wisconsin's voter ID law are heading to the Wisconsin Supreme Court after two appellate courts sent them to the state's high court on Wednesday. In the two cases, NAACP v. Walker and League of Women Voters v. Walker, the plaintiffs assert that Wisconsin's voter ID law is.... [more]
Wisconsin DOJ appeals injunction on new voter ID law
March 23, 2012 by Sung Un Kim
The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday appealed two decisions by the Dane County Circuit Court blocking Wisconsin's new voter identification law. The DOJ filed on behalf of the defendants in NAACP v. Walker and League of Women Voters v. Walker. Judge Richard Neiss refused to lift.... [more]
Derrick Bell: November 6, 1930 - October 5, 2011
October 6, 2011 by Matthew Shames
Derrick Bell, a leading legal scholar and the first tenured African-American professor at Harvard Law School, died Wednesday in New York of carcinoid cancer. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bell graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1957, the only African-.... [more]
NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois born [this day at law]
February 23, 2010 by JURIST Staff
W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was born on February 23, 1868. Review the W.E.B. DuBois Papers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and released FBI files on DuBois kept because of his affiliation with "communist front.... [more]
Attorney General's frank conversation of race requires end to politically correct bullying tactics [comment]
February 25, 2009 by Andrew Wood
Jennifer Gratz: Attorney General Holder recently called the American people a nation of cowards with respect to the issue of race. For the most part, I agree with him but in, I suspect, a very different way than what he meant with his comment. The civil rights establishment led....... [more]
Eleventh Circuit upholds Georgia voter ID law
January 15, 2009 by Safiya Boucaud
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Georgia law that requires voters to present government-issued photo identification in order to vote. The suit was filed by two elderly voters in Georgia, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),.... [more]
Georgia voter ID law ruling [11th Circuit] [document]
January 14, 2009 by Michael
Common Cause/Georgia, et al., v. NAACP, Eugene Taylor, and Bertha Barrett Young, US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, January 14, 2009. Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....... [more]
Ending use of prosecutors as monitors helps keep polling places intimidation-free [comment]
October 6, 2008 by Andrew Wood
Kristen Clarke: Polling places should be intimidation-free spaces in which all voters are able to freely cast their ballot without interference or obstruction. Both federal law and a number of state laws include provisions that are aimed at ensuring that voters do not face intimidation during....... [more]
Federal judge issues preliminary injunction against Florida voter registration law
December 19, 2007 by Leslie Schulman
US District Court Judge Stephan Mickle of the Northern District of Florida granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday blocking the implementation of a new Florida voting law intended to prevent election fraud in the state. The law would prevent a person from registering to vote if their social.... [more]
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