LA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO v. ABBOTT

No. 21-51145.

29 F.4th 299 (2022)

LA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO; Friendship-West Baptist Church; The Anti-Defamation League Austin, Southwest, and Texoma; Southwest Voter Registration Education Project; Texas Impact; Mexican American Bar Association of Texas; Texas Hispanics Organized for Political Education; JOLT Action; William C. Velasquez Institute; James Lewin; Fiel Houston, Incorporated; Mi Familia Vota; Marla Lopez; Paul Rutledge, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gregory W. ABBOTT, in his official capacity as Governor of Texas, et al., Defendants, Harris County Republican Party; Dallas County Republican Party; National Republican Senatorial Committee; National Republican Congressional Committee; Republican National Committee, Movants-Appellants, OCA-Greater Houston; League of Women Voters of Texas; REVUP-Texas; Texas Organizing Project; Workers Defense Action Fund, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jose A. Esparza, in his official capacity as Deputy Secretary of the State of Texas, et al., Defendants, Harris County Republican Party; Dallas County Republican Party; National Republican Senatorial Committee; National Republican Congressional Committee; Republican National Committee, Movants-Appellants, Houston Justice; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated; Houston Area Urban League; The Arc of Texas; Jeffrey Lamar Clemmons, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gregory Wayne Abbott, in his official capacity as Governor of Texas, et al., Defendants, Harris County Republican Party; Dallas County Republican Party; National Republican Senatorial Committee; National Republican Congressional Committee; Republican National Committee, Movants-Appellants, LULAC Texas; Vote Latino; Texas Alliance for Retired Americans; Texas AFT, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jose Esparza, in his official capacity as the Texas Deputy Secretary of State, et al., Defendants, Harris County Republican Party; Dallas County Republican Party; National Republican Senatorial Committee; National Republican Congressional Committee; Republican National Committee, Movants-Appellants, Mi Familia Vota; Marla Lopez; Marlon Lopez; Paul Rutledge, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gregory Abbott, in his official capacity as Governor of Texas, et al., Defendants, Harris County Republican Party; Dallas County Republican Party; National Republican Senatorial Committee; National Republican Congressional Committee; Republican National Committee, Movants-Appellants, United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. State of Texas, et al., Defendant, Harris County Republican Party; Dallas County Republican Party; National Republican Senatorial Committee; National Republican Congressional Committee; Republican National Committee, Movants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed March 25, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nina Perales , Mexican-American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, San Antonio, TX, Jason Scott Kanterman , Michael Courtney Keats , Rebecca L. Martin , Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee La Union del Pueblo Entero.

Sean Morales-Doyle , Eliza Sweren-Becker , Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY, Nina Perales , Mexican-American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, San Antonio, TX, Paul Richard Genender, Esq. , Weil, Gotshal & Manges, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Friendship-West Baptist Church, Anti-Defamation League Austin, Southwest, and Texoma, and Texas Impact.

Nina Perales , Mexican-American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, San Antonio, TX, Jason Scott Kanterman , Michael Courtney Keats , Rebecca L. Martin , Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, Mexican American Bar Association of Texas, Texas Hispanics Organized for Political Education, JOLT Action, William C. Velasquez Institute, and Fiel Houston, Incorporated.

Sean Morales-Doyle , Eliza Sweren-Becker , Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY, Nina Perales , Mexican-American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, San Antonio, TX, Sameer Singh Birring , Harris County Attorney's Office, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee James Lewin.

Courtney Marie Hostetler , John C. Bonifaz , Ronald Fein , Free Speech For People, Amherst, MA, Ben Clements , Newton, MA, Sean M. Lyons, Esq. , Lyons & Lyons, P.C., San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Mi Familia Vota, Marla Lopez, Paul Rutledge, and Marlon Lopez.

Jessica Ring Amunson , Jenner & Block, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Lia Sifuentes Davis , Disability Rights Texas, Central Texas Regional Office, Savannah Kumar , American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, Houston, TX, Sophia Lin Lakin , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Voting Rights Project, New York, NY, Ari J. Savitzky , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Jerry Vattamala , Director, Asian American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee OCA-Greater Houston.

Lia Sifuentes Davis , Disability Rights Texas, Central Texas Regional Office, Savannah Kumar , American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, Houston, TX, Sophia Lin Lakin , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Voting Rights Project, New York, NY, Ari J. Savitzky , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees League of Women Voters of Texas, REVUP-Texas, Texas Organizing Project, and Workers Defense Action Fund.

Kenneth Eugene Broughton, Jr. , Sarah Cummings Stewart , Attorney, Reed Smith, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Mohammed Amir Badat , Kathryn C. Sadasivan , NAACP, Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Incorporated, New York, NY, Jennifer A. Holmes , Georgina Yeomans , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Incorporated, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Houston Justice, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Houston Area Urban League, Arc of Texas, and Jeffrey Lamar Clemmons.

Uzoma Nkem Nkwonta , Noah Baron , Graham White , Elias Law Group, L.L.P., Washington, DC, John Russell Hardin, Esq. , Perkins Coie, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, Jonathan Patrick Hawley , Elias Law Group, Seattle, WA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees LULAC Texas, Vote Latino, Texas Alliance for Retired Americans, and Texas AFT.

Katherine Elmlinger Lamm , Attorney, Erin Helene Flynn, Esq. , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Div — Appellate Section, Washington, DC, Daniel Joshua Freeman , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee United States of America.

John Matthew Gore , Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Movants-Appellants.

Before Owen, Chief Judge, and Higginbotham and Elrod, Circuit Judges.


The Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 1 in August 2021 and Governor Greg Abbott signed it into law the next month. SB 1 amended the Texas Election Code in various ways. Five groups of private plaintiffs and the United States sued the State of Texas and an assortment of state and local officials to enjoin...

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