NAACP v. MERRILL

Docket No. 19-576-cv August Term 2019.

939 F.3d 470 (2019)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, NAACP Connecticut State Conference, Justin Farmer, Germano Kimbro, Conley Monk, Jr., Garry Monk, Dione Zackery, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Denise MERRILL, Secretary of State, Edward Lamont, Jr., Governor, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 24, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alaa Chaker , Law Student Intern ( Michael J. Wishnie , Supervising Attorney, on the brief), Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic, Yale Law School, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Alexander T. Taubes ( David N. Rosen , on the brief), David Rosen & Associates, P.C., New Haven, Connecticut; Benjamin D. Alter , Bradford M. Berry , National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Inc., New York, New York, and Baltimore, Maryland, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Michael K. Skold , Assistant Attorney General ( Maura Murphy Osborne , Assistant Attorney General, on the brief), for William Tong, Attorney General of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: Wesley, Chin, and Bianco, Circuit Judges.


Defendants-appellants Denise Merrill and Edward Lamont, Jr., in their official capacities as the Secretary of State and Governor of Connecticut, respectively (together, "Defendants"),1 appeal the February 15, 2019 order of the district court (Eginton, J.) denying their motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction...

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