MIGLIORI v. COHEN

No. 22-1499.

36 F.4th 153 (2022)

Ms. Linda MIGLIORI; Francis J. Fox; Richard E. Richards; Kenneth Ringer; Sergio Rivas, Appellants, v. Zachary COHEN, Intervenor-Plaintiff v. Lehigh County Board of Elections v. David Ritter, Intervenor-Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Opinion filed: May 27, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adriel I. Cepeda Derieux , Sophia Lin Lakin , Stephen A. Loney, Jr. , Ari J. Savitzky [Argued], Marian K. Schneider , Richard T. Ting , Witold J. Walczak , American Civil Liberties Union, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004, Connor P. Hayes , 110 Piper Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15234, Counsel for Plaintiff-Appellants.

Adam C. Bonin , 400, 121 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Counsel for Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee.

Joshua Mazin [Argued], Lucas J. Repka , RepkaMazin, 108 East Center Street, Nazareth, PA 18064, Counsel for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.

James G. Gorman , Francis G. Notarianni , Shohin H. Vance , Joshua J. Voss [Argued], Samantha G. Zimmer , Kleinbard, Three Logan Square, 1717 Arch Street, 5th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Counsel for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.

Jacob B. Boyer [Argued], Michael J. Fischer , Office of Attorney General of Pennsylvania, 1600 Arch Street, Suite 300, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Counsel for Amicus Appellant Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Noah Bokat-Lindell [Argued], Tovah R. Calderon , United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, P.O. Box 14403, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044, Counsel for Amicus Appellant United States of America.

Edward M. Wenger , Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, 2300 N Street N.W., Suite 643-A, Washington, D.C. 20037, Counsel for Amicus Appellee The Honest Elections Project.

Zachary M. Wallen , 301 South Hills Village Drive, Suite LL200-420, Pittsburgh, PA 15241, Counsel for Amici Appellee Speaker Pennsylvania House of Representatives, President Pro Tempore Pennsylvania Senate, Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania Senate.

Before: McKEE, GREENAWAY JR., and MATEY, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

The Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act1 prohibits any "person acting under color of law [from] deny[ing] the right of any individual to vote in any election because of an error or omission ... if such error or omission is not material in determining whether such voter...

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