COMMON CAUSE/GEORGIA, League of Women Voters of Georgia, Inc., The Central Presbyterian Outreach and Advocacy Center, Inc., Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, Inc., The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Inc., through its Georgia State Conference of Branches, Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, Concerned Black Clergy of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc., and the following qualified and registered voters under Georgia law: Mrs. Clara Williams, Plaintiffs,
v.
Ms. Evon BILLUPS, Superintendent of Elections for the Board of Elections and Voter Registration for Floyd County and the City of Rome, Georgia, Ms. Tracy Brown, Superintendent of Elections of Bartow County, Georgia, Mr. Gary Petty, Ms. Michelle Hudson, Ms. Amanda Spencer, Mr. Ron McKelvey, and Ms. Nina Crawford, members of the Board of Elections and Registration of Catoosa County, Georgia, Judge John Payne, Superintendent of Elections of Chattooga County, Georgia, Ms. Shea Hicks, Superintendent of Elections for Gordon County, Georgia, Ms. Jennifer A. Johnson, Superintendent of Elections for Polk County, Georgia, Mr. Sam Little, Superintendent of Elections for Whitfield County, Georgia, individually and in their respective official capacities as superintendents or members of the elections boards in their individual counties, and as class representatives under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 22(b)(1) and (b)(2) of a class consisting of all superintendents and members of city and county boards of elections throughout the State of Georgia, and Honorable Cathy Cox, individually and in her official capacities as Secretary of State of Georgia and Chair of the Georgia Elections Board, Defendants.
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October 18, 2005.
October 18, 2005.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
David G.H. Brackett, Emmet J. Bondurant, II, Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, Elizabeth Lynn Littrell, Gerald R. Weber, Margaret Fletcher Garrett, Meredith Bell-Platts, Moffatt Laughlin McDonald, Neil T. Bradley, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Georgia, Inc., Miles J. Alexander, Seth Aaron Cohen, Kilpatrick Stockton, Ralph Irving Knowles, Jr., Doffermyre Shields Canfield Knowles & Devine, Tisha Rae Tallman, Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (Maldef), Atlanta, GA, Edward Hine, Jr., Office of Edward Hine, Jr., Rome, GA, Jon M. Greenbaum, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.
Peter R. Olson, Jenkins & Olson, Cartersville, GA, Clifton M. Patty, Jr., Office of Clifton M. Patty, Jr., Ringgold, GA, Lewis Branch Sutton Connelly, Cook & Connelly, Summerville, GA, Anne Ware Lewis, Strickland Brockington Lewis, Mark Howard Cohen, Troutman Sanders, Stefan Ernst Ritter, Office of State Attorney General, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants.
United States District Court, N.D. Georgia, Rome Division.
ORDER
HAROLD L. MURPHY, District Judge.
This case is an action to have the photo identification ("Photo ID") requirement in the 2005 amendment to O.C.G.A. § 21-2-417 (Act No. 53), declared unconstitutional both on its face and as applied, and to enjoin its enforcement on the ground that it imposes an unauthorized, unnecessary, and undue burden on the fundamental right to vote of hundreds of thousands...
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