KOBACH v. U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COM'N

Nos. 14-3062, 14-3072.

772 F.3d 1183 (2014)

Kris W. KOBACH, Kansas Secretary of State; Ken Bennett, Arizona Secretary of State; State of Kansas; State of Arizona, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION; Alice Miller, in her capacity as acting Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the United States Election Assistance Commission, Defendants-Appellants, and Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.; Arizona Advocacy Network; League of United Latin American Citizens Arizona; Steve Gallardo; Project Vote, Inc.; League of Women Voters of The United States; League of Women Voters of Arizona; League of Women Voters of Kansas; Valle Del Sol; Southwest Voter Registration Education Project; Common Cause; Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc.; Debra Lopez, Defendant Intervenors-Appellants. Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Steny H. Hoyer, James E. Clyburn, Xavier Becerra, Marcia L. Fudge, Ruben Hinojosa, Judy Chu, Robert A. Brady; Rock The Vote; Voto Latino; Protecting Arizona's Family Coalition; Nonprofit Vote; Fair Share Education Fund; Fair Share; American Unity Legal Defense Fund; Allied Educational Foundation; Judicial Watch, Inc.; Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund; The States of Georgia and Alabama, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

November 7, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bonnie I. Robin-Vergeer ( Jocelyn Samuels , Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Diana K. Flynn and Sasha Samberg-Champion , attorneys, with her on the briefs), United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division-Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for the Defendants-Appellants.

Kris W. Kobach , Secretary of State of Kansas ( Thomas E. Knutzen and Caleb D. Crook , Kansas Secretary of State's Office, Topeka KS; Thomas C. Horne , Attorney General of Arizona and Michele L. Forney , Arizona Attorney General's Office, Phoenix, AZ; and Derek Schmidt , Attorney General of Kansas and Stephen R. McAllister and Jeffrey A. Chanay , Kansas Attorney General's Office, Topeka, KS, with him on the brief), Kansas Secretary of State's Office, Topeka, KS for the Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Susan Davies , Jonathan Janow , and Rachel B. Funk , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, D.C.; Michael C. Keats , Bonnie L. Jarrett , and Adam Teitcher , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, New York; David G. Seely , Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch LLC, Wichita, KS; and Wendy R. Weiser , Tomas Lopez , and Jonathan Brater , Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, New York, New York, Michelle Kanter Cohen , Project Vote, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Lee Thompson , Erin C. Thompson , Thompson Law Firm, LLC, Wichita, KS; and Robert N. Weiner , John A. Freedman , Andrew W. Beyer , and Andrew Treaster , Arnold & Porter, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Nina Perales , Ernest Herrera , Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, San Antonio, TX; Jeffrey J. Simon and Judd M. Treeman , Husch Blackwell LLP, Kansas City, MO; Linda Smith , Adam P. KohSweeney , and J. Jorge deNeve , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Lane Williams and Kip Elliot , Disability Rights Center of Kansas, Topeka, KS; Mark A. Posner and Erandi Zamora , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C.; Linda Stein , Errol R. Patterson , and Jason A. Abel , Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Joe P. Sparks , Laurel A. Herrmann , and Julia M. Kolsrud , The Sparks Law Firm, P.C., Scottsdale, AZ; David B. Rosenbaum , Thomas L. Hudson , and Anna H. Finn , Osborn Maledon, P.A., Phoenix, AZ; and Daniel B. Kohrman , AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, D.C., submitted a brief on behalf of Intervenors-Appellants League of Women Voters of the United States, League of Women Voters of Arizona, League of Women Voters of Kansas, Project Vote, Inc., Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, Common Cause, Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc., Debra Lopez, and Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., Arizona Advocacy Network, League of United Latin American Citizens Arizona, and Steve Gallardo.

Nina Perales , Ernest Herrera , Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, San Antonio, TX; Jeffrey J. Simon and Judd M. Treeman , Husch Blackwell LLP, Kansas City, MO; Linda Smith , Adam P. KohSweeney , and J. Jorge deNeve , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA, submitted a brief on behalf of Intervenor-Appellant Valle Del Sol.

Bradley J. Schlozman , Hinkle Law Firm, LLC, Wichita, Kansas, and Robert D. Popper and Chris Fedeli , Judicial Watch, Inc., Washington, D.C., filed an amicus curiae brief for Judicial Watch, Inc. and Allied Educational Foundation.

Lawrence J. Joseph , Washington, D.C., filed an amicus curiae brief for Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund.

Edith Hakola , American Unity Legal Defense Fund, Warrenton, VA, and Barnaby Zall , Weinberg, Jacobs Tolani , Bethesda, MD, filed an amicus curiae brief for American Unity Legal Defense Fund.

Luther Strange , Alabama Attorney General, Samuel S. Olens , Georgia Attorney General, and Dennis Dunn , Deputy Attorney General, Georgia Department of Law, Atlanta, GA, Montgomery, AL, filed an amicus curiae brief for the States of Georgia and Alabama.

Karl J. Sandstrom , Perkins Coie, LLP, Washington, D.C., and Joshua L. Kaul , Perkins Coie, LLP, Madison, WI, filed an amicus curiae brief for Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Steny H. Hoyer, James E. Clyburn, Xavier Becerra, Marcia L. Fudge, Ruben Hinojosa, Judy Chu, and Robert A. Brady.

Stuart C. Naifeh , Demos, New York, NY, and Brenda Wright and Lisa J. Danetz , Demos, Brighton, MA, filed an amicus curiae brief for Community Voter Registration Organizations.

Before LUCERO, HOLMES, and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.


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