COMMON CAUSE INDIANA v. LAWSON

Nos. 18-2491, 18-2492.

937 F.3d 944 (2019)

COMMON CAUSE INDIANA, Indiana State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and League of Women Voters of Indiana, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Connie LAWSON, in her official capacity as Secretary of State of Indiana, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 27, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myrna Perez , Attorney, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law, Democracy Program, Alexandre J. Tschumi , Attorney, Ellison Ward Merkel , Attorney, Sascha N. Rand , Attorney, Ellyde R. Thompson , Attorney, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, New York, NY, Trent A. McCain , Attorney, McCain Law Offices, P.C., Merrillville, IN, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Thomas M. Fisher , Attorney, Matthew Richard Elliott , Attorney, Julia Catherine Payne, Esq. , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Brennan and St. Eve, Circuit Judges.


Voting is at once an intensely personal act and a choice to participate in the collective process of representative democracy. It cannot take place, however, without an elaborate administrative infrastructure. This case concerns that machinery—in particular, the process that Indiana wants to use to cleanse its voter rolls...

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