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FISH v. SCHWAB

No. 18-3133, No. 18-3134.

957 F.3d 1105 (2020)

Steven Wayne FISH, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Donna Bucci, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated; Charles Stricker, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Thomas J. Boynton, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Douglas Hutchinson, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; League of Women Voters of Kansas, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Scott SCHWAB, in his official capacity as Secretary of State for the State of Kansas, Defendant-Appellant. State of Texas; State of Arkansas; State of Oklahoma; State of West Virginia; Paul LePage, Governor of Maine; State of Missouri; Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, Amici Curiae. Cody Keener; Alder Cromwell, Plaintiffs, and Parker Bednasek, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Scott Schwab, Kansas Secretary of State, Defendant-Appellant. State of Texas; State of Arkansas; State of Oklahoma; State of West Virginia; Paul LePage, Governor of Maine; State of Missouri; Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED April 29, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Toby Crouse , Solicitor General of Kansas, ( Derek Schmidt , Attorney General of Kansas, Jeffrey A. Chanay , Chief Deputy Attorney General, Bryan C. Clark , Assistant Solicitor General, Dwight R. Carswell , Assistant Solicitor General, with him on the briefs), Office of Attorney General, Topeka, Kansas, for Defendant-Appellant.

Dale Ho , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York, ( R. Orion Danjuma and Sophia Lin Lakin , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York; Mark P. Johnson , Curtis E. Woods and Samantha Wenger , Dentons US LLP, Kansas City, Missouri; Neil A. Steiner and Rebecca Kahan Waldman , Dechert LLP, New York, New York; Angela M. Liu , Dechert LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Lauren Bonds and Zal K. Shroff , ACLU Foundation of Kansas, Overland Park, Kansas; Lino S. Lipinsky De Orlov , Dentons US LLP, Denver, Colorado; Mark T. Emert , Fagan, Emert & Davis LLC, Lawrence, Kansas; Shannon Wells Stevenson , Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP, Denver, Colorado , with him on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Ken Paxton , Attorney General of Texas, Jeffrey C. Mateer , First Assistant Attorney General, Kyle D. Hawkins , Solicitor General, Matthew H. Frederick , Deputy Solicitor General, Beth Klusmann , Assistant Solicitor General, filed an amicus curiae brief for the States of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Paul R. LePage, Governor of Maine, in support of Defendant-Appellant.

Lawrence J. Joseph , Washington, D.C., filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, in support of Defendant-Appellant.

Before BRISCOE, McKAY, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

In these two consolidated appeals, we must determine whether a Kansas law requiring documentary proof of citizenship ("DPOC") for voter registration is preempted by section 5 of the National Voter Registration Act ("NVRA"), 52 U.S.C. § 20504, or violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

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