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ALABAMA STATE CONFERENCE OF NAT. ASS'N v. ALABAMA

No. 17-14443.

949 F.3d 647 (2020)

ALABAMA STATE CONFERENCE OF the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, Sherman Norfleet, Clarence Muhammad, Curtis Travis, John Harris, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. State of ALABAMA, Secretary of State for the State of Alabama, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 3, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith J. Harrison , Richard Edward Schwartz , Jerome Desanto , Crowell & Moring, LLP, Washington, DC, Anson Asaka , Bradford M. Berry , NAACP, Baltimore, MD, James Uriah Blacksher, Attorney at Law, Birmingham, AL, Charles Nicholas Dorman , Whatley Kallas, LLP, Birmingham, AL, Brendan Barrett Downes , Jon M. Greenbaum , Ezra D. Rosenberg , Dorian L. Spence , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Michael C. Keats , Jonathan Konig , Richard Stone , Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, LLP, New York, NY, Joseph Mitchell McGuire , McGuire & Associates, LLC, Montgomery, AL, Edward Still , Edward Still Law Firm, LLC, Birmingham, AL, Joe R. Whatley, Jr. , Whatley Kallas, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

James W. Davis , Edmund Gerard LaCour, Jr. , Misty Shawn Fairbanks Messick, Alabama Attorney General's Office, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Cara McClellan , Deuel Ross , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, for Amici Curiae NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC., CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, LATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF, INC., ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND.

Before WILSON and BRANCH, Circuit Judges, and VINSON, District Judge.

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