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HARNESS v. HOSEMANN

No. 19-60632.

988 F.3d 818 (2021)

Roy HARNESS; Kamal Karriem, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Delbert HOSEMANN, Secretary of State of Mississippi, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed February 23, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Bruce McDuff, Esq. , Fred L. Banks, Jr., Esq. , Phelps Dunbar, L.L.P., Jackson, MS, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. , Xiaonan April Hu , Attorney, Munger, Tolles & Olson, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Justin Lee Matheny, Esq. , Krissy C. Nobile, Esq. , Office of the Attorney General for the State of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, for Defendant-Appellee.

Elizabeth Baker Murrill, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, for Amici Curiae.

Before Smith, Higginson, and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.

Roy Harness and Kamal Karriem lost the right to vote in Mississippi when they were convicted of crimes enumerated in § 241 of the Mississippi Constitution. They claim that list was enacted with racially discriminatory intent in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. But they are not the first to make that claim...

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