FLORIDA STATE CONFERENCE OF N.A.A.C.P. v. BROWNING

No. 07-15932.

522 F.3d 1153 (2008)

FLORIDA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, (NAACP) as an Organization and Representative of its Members, Haitian American Grassroots Coalition, as an Organization and Representative of its Members, Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, As an Organization and Representative of its Clients, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Kurt S. BROWNING, in his Official Capacity as Secretary of State for the State of Florida, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 3, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Antonacci, Andy V. Bardos, Allen C. Winsor, Gray Robinson, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for Browning.

Glenn Thomas Burhans, Jr., Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, Elizabeth S. Westfall, The Advancement Project, Washington, DC, Robert A. Atkins, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Justin Michael Levitt, New York City, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, DUBINA and BARKETT, Circuit Judges.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal of a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a Florida voter registration statute as being preempted by two different federal statutes. The state law would require as a precondition of registering to vote for the first time in Florida that the voter disclose her driver's license number or the last four digits of her Social Security number on the registration application, and that this number match up with the number...

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