VEASEY v. ABBOTT

No. 20-40428.

13 F.4th 362 (2021)

Marc VEASEY; Jane Hamilton; Sergio DeLeon; Floyd Carrier; Anna Burns; Michael Montez; Penny Pope; Oscar Ortiz; Koby Ozias; League of United Latin American Citizens; John Mellor-Crumley; Gordon Benjamin; Ken Gandy; Evelyn Brickner, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Greg ABBOTT, in his Official Capacity as Governor of Texas; State of Texas; Ruth R. Hughs, in her Official Capacity as Texas Secretary of State, Defendants-Appellants, United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, Texas League of Young Voters Education Fund, Imani Clark, Intervenors Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. State of Texas, Defendant-Appellant, Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches; Mexican American Legislative Caucus, Texas House of Representatives, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Greg Abbott, in his Official Capacity as Governor of Texas; Ruth R. Hughs, in her Official Capacity as Texas Secretary of State; State of Texas, Defendants-Appellants, Eulalio Mendez, Jr.; Lionel Estrada; Estela Garcia Espinosa; Maximina Martinez Lara; La Union Del Pueblo Entero, Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. State of Texas; Ruth R. Hughs, in her Official Capacity as Texas Secretary of State, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED September 3, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chad Wilson Dunn, Esq. , Brazil & Dunn, Austin, TX, Neil G. Baron , League City, TX, Armand G. Derfner, Esq. , Derfner & Altman, L.L.C., Charleston, SC, Mark P. Gaber , Joseph G. Hebert , Danielle Marie Lang , Campaign Legal Center, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee Marc Veasey.

Chad Wilson Dunn, Esq. , Brazil & Dunn, Austin, TX, Armand G. Derfner, Esq. , Derfner & Altman, L.L.C., Charleston, SC, Mark P. Gaber , Joseph G. Hebert , Danielle Marie Lang , Campaign Legal Center, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Jane Hamilton, Sergio DeLeon, Floyd Carrier, Anna Burns, Michael Montez, Penny Pope, Oscar Ortiz, Koby Ozias, League of United Latin American Citizens, John Mellor-Crumley, Gordon Benjamin, Ken Gandy, Evelyn Brickner.

Thomas Evans Chandler , Trial Attorney, Anna Marks Baldwin , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Div — Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee United States of America.

Ezra D. Rosenberg, Esq. , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Jennifer Clark , Myrna Perez , Deputy Director, NYU School of Law, Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY, Lindsey Beth Cohan , Dechert, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches, Mexican American Legislative Caucus, Texas House of Representatives.

Susan F. Zinn , Alexander Stamm , Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Incorporated, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Eulalio Mendez, Jr., Estela Garcia Espinosa, Maximina Martinez Lara, La Union Del Pueblo Entero, Incorporated.

Leah Camille Aden, Esq. , Janai S. Nelson, Esq.,   Deuel Ross , Samuel Spital , Victoria Wenger , NAACP, Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Incorporated, New York, NY, Jonathan Edward Paikin, Esq. , Litigation Counsel, Kelly Patrick Dunbar , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellee Imani Clark.

Lanora Christine Pettit , Office of the Attorney General, Office of the Solicitor General, Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellants Greg Abbott, State of Texas, Ruth Hughs.

Before King, Dennis, and Ho, Circuit Judges.


By a sharply divided vote and over multiple spirited dissents, our en banc court held unlawful a Texas statute requiring voters to present photo ID in order to vote. See Veasey v. Abbott, 830 F.3d 216 (5th Cir. 2016) (en banc). We are of course bound by that decision. The only...

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