GREATER BIRMINGHAM MINISTRIES v. SEC'Y OF STATE

No. 18-10151.

992 F.3d 1299 (2021)

GREATER BIRMINGHAM MINISTRIES, Alabama State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Giovana Ambrosio, Elizabeth Ware, Shameka Harris, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR the STATE OF ALABAMA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 9, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deuel Ross , Leah Aden , Natasha Clarise Merle , Samuel Spital , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., NEW YORK, NY, Ryan M. Buschell , Robert D. Fram , Joshua A. Gonzalez , Sylvia Huang , Richard B. Oatis , Nathan E. Shafroth , Covington & Burling, LLP, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, John Michael Geise , Perkins Coie, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, Joanne B. Grossman , James MaCall Smith , Covington & Burling, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, Daniel Scott Harawa , Coty Rae Montag , NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc, WASHINGTON, DC, Joseph Mitchell McGuire , McGuire & Associates, LLC, MONTGOMERY, AL, Swati R. Prakash , Covington & Burling, LLP, NEW YORK, NY, Nana Wilberforce , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

James W. Davis , Steven Marshall , Corey L. Maze , Misty Shawn Fairbanks Messick , Winfield J. Sinclair , Alabama Attorney General's Office, MONTGOMERY, AL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Julie Ebenstein , Dale E. Ho , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, NEW YORK, NY, Matthew J. Higgins , Hogan Lovells US, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, Danielle Marie Lang , Paul March Smith , Campaign Legal Center, WASHINGTON, DC, Randall C. Marshall , American Civil Liberties Union, MONTGOMERY, AL, Ezra D. Rosenberg , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Voting Rights Project, WASHINGTON, DC, for Amici Curiae AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, and LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW.

Julie Ebenstein , Dale E. Ho , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, NEW YORK, NY, Matthew J. Higgins , Hogan Lovells US, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, Danielle Marie Lang , Paul March Smith , Campaign Legal Center, WASHINGTON, DC, Randall C. Marshall , American Civil Liberties Union, MONTGOMERY, AL, for Amicus Curiae AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA.

Jonathan Edward Paikin , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, for Amici Curiae JOSHUA A. DOUGLAS, ELLEN D. KATZ, DANIEL P. TOKAJI, and FRANITA TOLSON.

Samuel Jacob Brooke , Southern Poverty Law Center, MONTGOMERY, AL, for Amici Curiae SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ALABAMA, ADELANTE ALABAMA WORKER CENTER, ALABAMA ARISE, CENTRAL ALABAMA FAIR HOUSING CENTER, LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION OF ALABAMA, and MONTGOMERY PRIDE UNITED.

Samuel Jacob Brooke , Southern Poverty Law Center, MONTGOMERY, AL, James Uriah Blacksher , James U. Blacksher , Attorney, BIRMINGHAM, AL, for Amicus Curiae ALABAMA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS.

Thomas Molnar Fisher , Office of the Attorney General, INDIANAPOLIS, IN, for Amicus Curiae STATE OF INDIANA.

John J. Park, Jr. , Strickland Brockington Lewis, LLP, ATLANTA, GA, for Amicus Curiae AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS UNION.

Paul Joseph Orfanedes , Judicial Watch, Inc., WASHINGTON, DC, for Amici Curiae JUDICIAL WATCH, INC. and ALLIED EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

Before BRANCH and ED CARNES, Circuit Judges, and GAYLES, District Judge.


We sua sponte vacate our previous opinion and substitute the following in its place.

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At the end of 2015, advocacy groups and individual Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit against Alabama's Secretary of State, John Merrill, challenging Alabama's 2011 Photo Voter Identification Law (hereinafter, the "voter...

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