IN RE LANDRY

No. 23-30642.

83 F.4th 300 (2023)

IN RE Jeff LANDRY, In his official capacity as the Louisiana Attorney General; Kyle R. Ardoin, in his official capacity as Louisiana Secretary of State, Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED September 28, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason Brett Torchinsky , Edward Mark Wenger, Esq. , Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, Angelique Duhon Freel, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Wale, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Louisiana Department of Justice, Baton Rouge, LA, Phillip Michael Gordon , Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, P.L.L.C., Haymarket, VA, Carey Thompson Jones, Esq. , Elizabeth Baker Murrill, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, Jeffrey M. Wale, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Louisiana Department of Justice, Baton Rouge, LA, for Petitioner Jeff Landry.

Jason Brett Torchinsky , Edward Mark Wenger, Esq. , Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, Phillip Michael Gordon , Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, P.L.L.C., Haymarket, VA, Phillip Strach , Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., Raleigh, NC, John Carroll Walsh , Shows, Cali & Walsh, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, for Petitioner Kyle R. Ardoin.

Stuart Naifeh , Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Incorporated, New York, NY, John Nelson Adcock , Adcock Law, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Jared Evans , Isabel Sara Rohani , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Incorporated, Washington, DC, Adam Savitt , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, L.L.P., New York, NY, Tiffany Alora Thomas , Harvard Law School, Election Law Clinic, Cambridge, MA, for Respondents Press Robinson, Edgar Cage, Dorothy Nairne, Edwin Rene Soule, Alice Washington, Clee Earnest Lowe, Davante Lewis, Martha Davis, Ambrose Sims, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Louisiana State Conference, Power Coalition for Equity and Justice.

Renee Chabert Crasto , Adams & Reese, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, Andree Matherne Cullens , Joseph Elton Cullens, Jr., Esq. , Walters, Papillion, Thomas, Cullens, L.L.C., Baton Rouge, LA, Abha Khanna , Elias Law Group, L.L.P., Seattle, WA, Jacob D. Shelly , Elias Law Group, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Respondents Edward Galmon, Sr., Ciara Hart, Norris Henderson, Tramelle Howard.

Before Jones, Higginson, and Ho, Circuit Judges.


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