N.C. STATE CONFERENCE OF NAACP v. McCRORY

Nos. 1:13CV658, 1:13CV660, 1:13CV861.

997 F.Supp.2d 322 (2014)

NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE, OF the NAACP, Emmanuel Baptist Church, New Oxley Hill Baptist Church, Bethel A. Baptist Church, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Clinton Tabernacle Ame Zion Church, Barbee's Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Inc., Rosanell Eaton, Armenta Eaton, Carolyn Coleman, Baheeyah Madany, Jocelyn Ferguson-Kelly, Faith Jackson, Mary Perry, and Maria Teresa Unger Palmer, Plaintiffs, v. Patrick Lloyd McCRORY, in his Official capacity as Governor of North Carolina, Kim Westbrook Strach, in her official capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, Rhonda K. Amoroso, in her official capacity as Secretary of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, Joshua D. Malcolm, in his official Capacity as a member of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, Paul J. Foley, in his official Capacity as a member of the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Maja Kricker, in her official capacity as a member of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, Defendants. League of Women Voters of North Carolina; A. Philip Randolph Institute; Unifour Onestop Collaborative; Common Cause North Carolina; Goldie Wells; Kay Brandon; Octavia Rainey; Sara Stohler; and Hugh Stohler, Plaintiffs, and Louis M. Duke; Asgod Barrantes; Josue E. Berduo; Charles M. Gray; Nancy J. Lund; Brian M. Miller; Becky Hurley Mock; Mary-Wren Ritchie, Lynne M. Walter, And Ebony N. West, Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. The State of North Carolina, Joshua B. Howard, in his official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Rhonda K. Amoroso, in her official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Joshua D. Malcolm, in his official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Paul J. Foley, in his official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Maja Kricker, in her official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; and Patrick L. McCrory, in his official capacity as the Governor of the State of North Carolina, Defendants. United States of America, Plaintiff, v. The State of North Carolina, The North Carolina State Board of Elections; and Kim W. Strach, in her official capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. North Carolina.

Signed August 8, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bridget K. O'Connor , Christopher J. Maner , Daniel T. Donovan , Jodi K. Wu , Kenneth Winn Allen , Kimberly D. Rancour , Susan Marie Davies , Thomas D. Yannucci , Uzoma N. Nkwonta , Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, Denise D. Lieberman , Donita Judge , Penda Denise Hair , Advancement Project, Washington, DC, Irving Joyner , N.C. Central University School of Law, Cary, NC, Adam Stein , Tin Fulton Walker & Owen, PLLC, Chapel Hill, NC, for Plaintiffs.

Karl S. Bowers , Bowers Law Office LLC, Columbia, SC, Alexander McClure Peters , N.C. Department of Justice, Thomas A. Farr , Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Raleigh, NC, Amy M. Pocklington , Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Richmond, VA, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

THOMAS D. SCHROEDER, District Judge.

In these related cases, Plaintiffs seek a preliminary injunction pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65 barring Defendants from implementing various provisions of North Carolina Session Law 2013-381 ("SL 2013-381"), an omnibus election-reform law.1 (Docs. 96 & 98 in case 1:13CV861; Docs. 108 & 110 in case 1:13CV658; Docs. 112 & 114 in...

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