Court Cases

This case challenges a law requiring new and current voters to have “evidence of citizenship” on file, such as a passport or birth certificate, to register to vote or remain on the voter rolls. Thousands of Floridians don’t have ready access to these documents.

This case challenges bans on non-citizens being involved in voter-registration activity in Florida and the harsh strict-liability penalties ($50,000 per individual violation) that can put third-party voter-registration organizations out of business even for accidental violations. Working with numerous partners, we obtained a preliminary injunction against enforcement in July 2023, which became a permanent injunction after a successful trial in April 2024.

This case challenges one congressional district and three State House districts in South Florida as racially gerrymandered in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Legislature drew these districts along racial lines to form non-compact shapes, connect disparate neighborhoods, and divide established communities. In doing so, lawmakers ignored the nuanced, multifaceted, and diverse nature of the region’s Hispanic and Latino community, treating Hispanic voters as a monolithic group based on false and stereotypic assumptions, which dilutes their influence. The use of race to draw these districts was not justified by the Voting Rights Act or the minority-protection provisions of Florida's Fair Districts Amendments. We filed the case in May 2024. In November 2025, the court permitted our claims over Congressional District 26 and House Districts 115, 118, and 119 to proceed to trial, which was held in January 2026.

This case challenges the Daytona Beach City Commission’s redistricting map, adopted in October 2025, as racially gerrymandered in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. In drawing the map, the City Commission set an arbitrary and unjustified racial target for two districts. To achieve their desired racial composition, commissioners connected disparate neighborhoods, divided established communities, and ignored citizen input. The use of race to draw these districts was not justified by the Voting Rights Act. We filed our complaint in October 2025.

This case challenged two Florida Senate districts in the Tampa Bay area—Districts 16 and 18—as racially gerrymandered in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. District 16 stretches across the waters of Tampa Bay to connect disparate and distinct Black communities in Tampa and St. Petersburg, packing more than half of the region’s Black residents into that district. As a result, adjacent District 18 is artificially stripped of Black residents, diminishing their influence and voice in elections there. We filed this case in April 2024. In March 2025, the court permitted our claim concerning District 16 to proceed to trial, which was held in June 2025.