LEWIS v. GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Jane Chisholm , Eric P. Brown , Altshuler Berzon, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Richard Paul Rouco , Glen M. Connor , George Nicholas Davies , Quinn Connor Weaver Davies & Rouco, LLP, Birmingham, AL, Mary Joyce Carlson , Law Office of Mary Joyce Carlson, Washington, DC, Edward Still , Edward Still Law Firm, LLC, Birmingham, AL, Robert H. Stroup , Levy Ratner, PC, New York, NY, Joe R. Whatley, Jr. , Whatley Kallas, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Marnika Lewis, Antoin Adams, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Greater Birmingham Ministries.

James Uriah Blacksher , Attorney at Law, Birmingham, AL, U. W. Clemon , U.W. Clemon, LLC, BIRMINGHAM, AL, Richard Paul Rouco , Quinn Connor Weaver Davies & Rouco, LLP, Birmingham, AL, Edward Still , Edward Still Law Firm, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Marika Coleman, John Rogers, Priscilla Dunn, Juandalynn Givan, Louise Alexander, William Muhammad, Rodger Smitherman, Oliver Robinson, Alabama Legislative Black Caucus, Mary Moore.

Andrew Lynn Brasher , James W. Davis , Edmund Gerard LaCour, Jr. , Alabama Attorney General's Office, Montgomery, AL, William Glenn Parker, Jr. , David B. Byrne, Jr., Steven Marshall , Office of the Governor, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellees Governor of Alabama, Attorney General, State of Alabama, State of Alabama.

Fredric L. Fullerton, II , Kayla Lawrence, City of Birmingham Law Department, Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-Appellees Birmingham, City of, William A. Bell, Sr.

Samuel Jacob Brooke , Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, Miya Chen , Benjamin Beach, The Partnership for Working Families, Oakland, CA, for Amicus Curiae The Partnership for Working Families.

Jon M. Greenbaum , Dariely Rodriguez , Ezra D. Rosenberg , Thomas Samuel Silverstein , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Michael N. Litrownik , Bromberg Law Office, PC, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Pamela S. Karlan , Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, Joyce White Vance , University of Alabama School of Law, Birmingham, AL, for Amici Curiae Susan Ashmore , Wayne Flynt , Hasan Jeffries , J. Morgan Kousser , Peyton Mccrary , Patricia Sullivan .

Samuel Jacob Brooke , Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, for Amicus Curiae Southern Poverty Law Center.

Amy Farr Robertson , Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center, Denver, CO, for Amici Curiae Kasim Reed , Andrew Gillum , Karen Freeman-wilson , Oliver G. Gilbert, III , Local Progress.

Deuel Ross , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, for Amici Curiae NAACP Legal Defense, Educational Fund, Inc., Campaign Legal Center.

Albert Loring Vreeland, II , Lehr Middlebrooks & Vreeland, PC, BIRMINGHAM, AL, for Amicus Curiae Alabama Retail Association, Business Council of Alabama, Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality Association, Alabama Grocers Association, Alabama Policy Institute, National Restaurant Association, Asian American Hotel Owners Association, National Federation of Independent Business.

Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT, MARCUS, WILSON, WILLIAM PRYOR, MARTIN, JORDAN, ROSENBAUM, JILL PRYOR, NEWSOM, BRANCH, and GRANT, Circuit Judges: