There’s a new federal lawsuit demanding that Georgia extend the voter registration deadline for the coastal area of Chatham County because of Hurricane Matthew. The Plaintiffs, which includes the local NAACP, also request that the extension affect the entire state. If they’re the successful, Georgians would have until October 18 to sign up .
The state of that enter the state from other states after the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association reached a $44.4 million tax refund agreement with the state. The state’s Supreme Court agreed earlier this year with OOIDA’s challenge that the registration and decal taxes in the state were unconstitutional and discriminatory against out-of-state truckers who drive mostly in other …
A federal lawsuit accuses Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp on Wednesday of disenfranchising thousands of minorities ahead of the presidential election, alleging that the state’s “strict matching” requirement for information on registration forms blocked them from voter rolls. The Republican Kemp’s office called it an unwarranted attack by liberal groups. But according to the suit, black, …
A federal lawsuit claims Georgia’s voter registration process violates the Voting Rights Act and has prevented tens of thousands of people from being able to register to vote – many of them minorities. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Gainesville says a state policy causes voter registration applications to be rejected if the submitted information doesn’t exactly match that in …
Georgia’s voter registration process violates the Voting Rights Act and has prevented tens of thousands of residents, mostly minorities, from registering to vote, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. Under a policy implemented in 2010, people aren’t added to the voter rolls if identifying information on their applications doesn’t exactly match information in databases …
A federal lawsuit could cause some problems for people looking to take advantage of the state’s new election day voter registration rules. The new rules require counties and major cities to offer same-day …
Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Sunrun Inc. (“Sunrun” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:RUN) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, Northern District of California, and docketed under 16-cv-02480, is on behalf of a class …
Civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming that a century-old Louisiana law discriminates against foreign-born, naturalized U.S. citizens by arbitrarily subjecting them to “heightened” voter registration requirements that don’t apply to native-born citizens. Attorneys from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Fair Elections Legal Network are seeking a court order …
Kansas is fending off multiple legal challenges from voting rights activists, and just months before the state’s August primary, the status of the “dual registration” system remains unclear. Federal judges in separate voter-registration lawsuits unfolding in Kansas and Washington, D.C., could rule at any time. There’s also greater urgency because registrations typically surge during an election …
He waited 11 days, but on April 12, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a budget resolution agreed to by the state Senate and Assembly that includes a fix for registration and decal fees for heavy-duty trucks. New York’s Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 1 that the fees were unconstitutional for out-of-state trucks after the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association …