Court Cases
Caperton v. Massey
Justice Brent Benjamin of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia refused to recuse himself from the appeal of a $50 million jury verdict in this case, even though the CEO of the lead defendant spent $3 million supporting his campaign. Did Benjamin’s failure to recuse violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
– 01/05/09
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children v. Bowen
This is case is class action Equal Protection challenge to California’s disenfranchisement law, which bars persons with felony convictions from voting while they are in prison and on parole.
– 12/09/08
Duke v. Leake
The Brennan Center is intervening to help defend the nation’s first voluntary full public financing program for judicial elections.
– 11/05/08
Kiyemba v. Bush
The Brennan Center for Justice and three other organizations submitted an amicus brief on October 31, 2008, in Kiyemba v. Bush, urging the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the D.C. District Court’s decision to release 17 Uighurs currently detained unlawfully at Guantánamo Bay into the United States.
– 10/31/08
Arar v. Ashcroft
The Brennan Center filed an amicus brief in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of a group of distinguished federal judges in support of Maher Arar, a Canadian who was subject to extraordinary rendition to Syria.
– 10/27/08
Common Cause of Colorado, et al. v. Coffman
A coalition of voting rights groups sued the Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman claiming he illegally removed over 27,000 voters from the rolls. They filed a temporary restraining order to get those names reinstated and to ensure additional names cannot be removed before Election Day.
– 10/24/08
In Re NSA Telecommunications Records Litiagation
The Brennan Center for Justice submitted an amicus brief on October 24, 2008, in support of the plaintiffs’ opposition to the government’s motion to dismiss on the basis of Congress’ recent grant of retroactive immunity to telecommunication companies that participated in the National Security Agency’s illegal domestic wiretapping program.
– 10/24/08
Van Hollen v. Government Accountability Board
Wisconsin AG, J.B. Van Hollen, claims the state’s Government Accountability Board(GAB) is incompliant with HAVA by not retroactively running database matches and purging voters from registration rolls.
– 10/23/08
Florida NAACP v. Browning
A lawsuit filled by the Brennan Center and other voting rights advocates challenging Florida’s requirement that the driver’s license or Social Security number on a registration form be verified before a voter can be registered to vote.
– 10/23/08
Republican Party of Ohio v. Secretary Brunner
The Ohio Republican Party sued Ohio’s Secretary of State alleging that various policies adopted by the Secretary violated federal and state law. Among the claims was that Ohio was not in compliance with provisions of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ("HAVA").
– 10/13/08