SWANN v. SECRETARY, GEORGIA

No. 10-14901.

668 F.3d 1285 (2012)

Hassan SWANN, Plaintiff-Appellant, David A. Hartfield, Plaintiff, v. SECRETARY, State of GEORGIA, in his official capacity as Secretary of State for the State of Georgia, The DeKalb County Board of Registrations and Elections, Michael P. Coveny, Catherine Gilliard, Leona Perry, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 2, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laughlin McDonald , Nancy Gbana Abudu , Chara Fisher Jackson , ACLU Foundation, Inc., George Brian Spears , G. Brian Spears, PC, Atlanta, GA, Neil Bradley , Avondale Est, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Stefan Ernst Ritter , Samuel Scott Olens , Atlanta, GA, Brenda Ann Raspberry , Duane Dennis Pritchett , DeKalb County Law Dept., Decatur, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before EDMONDSON and PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and HOPKINS, District Judge.


PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal addresses whether a former inmate of a county jail has standing to complain that state and local officials failed to mail him a ballot at the jail even though he never asked them to mail him a ballot there. Hassan Swann appeals the summary judgment in favor of the Secretary of State of Georgia and several elections officials for DeKalb County, Georgia. Swann's complaint alleges that the officials' application of a Georgia statute...

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