NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR HOMELESS v. HUSTED

Nos. 14-4083/4084/4132/4133/ 15-3295/3296/3380/3381.

831 F.3d 686 (2016)

THE NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS; Service Employees International Union, Local 1199; Columbus Coalition for the Homeless; Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants, Ohio Democratic Party, Intervenor-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. Jon HUSTED, in his official capacity as Secretary of the State of Ohio, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, State of Ohio, Intervenor-Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 1, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Zachery P. Keller , Office of the Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellants/Cross-Appellees. Sandhya Gupta , The Chandra Law Firm, LLC, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and Ohio Democratic Party. Stephen P. Berzon , Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, California, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants Service Employees. ON BRIEF: Zachery P. Keller , Ryan L. Richardson , Office of the Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellants/Cross-Appellees. Sandhya Gupta , Subodh Chandra , The Chandra Law Firm, LLC, Cleveland, Ohio, Caroline H. Gentry , Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur LLP, Dayton, Ohio, Donald J. McTigue , Mark A. McGinnis , J. Corey Colombo , McTigue McGinnis & Colombo, LLC, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and Ohio Democratic Party. Stephen P. Berzon , Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, California, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants Service Employees. Frederick M. Gittes , Jeffrey P. Vardaro , The Gittes Law Group, Columbus, Ohio, Barbara D. Bonar , Law Offices of B. Dahlenburg Bonar, Covington, Kentucky, Jon M. Greenbaum , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., Freda J. Levenson , ACLU of Ohio Foundation, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, Kathleen L. Bogas , Bogas & Koncius, P.C., Bingham Farms, Michigan, Jennifer B. Morton , Jennifer Morton Law, PLLC, Knoxville, Tennessee, Jacqueline Greene , Friedman & Gilbert, Cleveland, Ohio, for Amicus Curiae.

Before: MERRITT, SUHRHEINRICH, DONALD, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

I. OVERVIEW

Months before the 2012 presidential election, based on a change in state law, Defendants State of Ohio and Secretary of State John Husted (collectively, "Defendants") sought to undo a federal consent decree ("Decree") that required...

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