MEMPHIS A. PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE v. HARGETT

No. 20-6141.

977 F.3d 566 (2020)

MEMPHIS A. PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE; The Equity Alliance; Free Hearts; Memphis and West Tennessee AFL-CIO Central Labor Council; The Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP; Sekou Franklin, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Tre HARGETT, in his official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of Tennessee; Mark Goins, in his official capacity as Coordinator of Elections for the State of Tennessee; Amy P. Weirich, in her official capacity as District Attorney General for Shelby County, Tennessee, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: October 19, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ON MOTION AND REPLY: Matthew D. Cloutier , OFFICE OF THE TENNESSEE ATTORNEY GENERAL, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants. ON RESPONSE: Ezra D. Rosenberg , LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW, Washington, D.C., Molly Danahy, Jonathan Diaz , Ravi Doshi , Caleb Jackson , CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.

GIBBONS, J., delivered the order of the court in which READLER, J., joined, and MOORE, J., joined in the result. MOORE, J. (pp. 569-77), delivered a separate opinion concurring in the denial of a stay pending appeal.


ORDER

We have before us defendants' motion to stay the district court's preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a statutory requirement that voters who registered online or by mail vote in person in the first election in which they vote after registration. For the following reasons, defendants...

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