A federal appeals court on Wednesday shut down the ability of private individuals to bring Voting Rights Act lawsuits ...

The lower court committed “legal error” in its ruling finding no violation of the Voting Rights Act, Judge Adalberto Jordan ...

A federal appeals court that already has said private individuals and groups cannot sue under a key part of the federal ...

The Houston school district uses an at-large voting system to elect its seven trustees, instead of a system in which board ...

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After a challenge by Republican officials in North Dakota, a federal appeals panel struck down a key way of enforcing the ...

A three-judge panel permanently blocked Alabama from using a state-drawn map that they said flouted their directive to draw a ...

This victory comes after recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have undermined voting rights laws. “If any case was going to ...

A federal appeals court appears inclined to revive a lawsuit accusing a conservative group of violating the Voting Rights Act when it announced it was challenging the eligibility of more than 360,000 ...

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has won a victory at the Supreme Court against Alabama's discriminatory redistricting practices ...

Private citizens in seven states no longer have a legal path to sue under a key section of the Voting Rights Act, under a ...