ALABAMA STATE CONFERENCE OF NAT'L ASS'N v. ALABAMA

CASE NO. 2:16-CV-731-WKW.

612 F.Supp.3d 1232 (2020)

ALABAMA STATE CONFERENCE OF the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, Sherman Norfleet, Clarence Muhammad, Curtis Travis, and John Harris, Plaintiffs, v. State of ALABAMA and John H. Merrill, in his official capacity as Alabama Secretary of State, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.

Signed February 5, 2020.

Editors Note
Applicable Law: 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Cause: 28 U.S.C. § 2201 Declaratory Judgement
Nature of Suit: 440 Civil Rights: Other
Source: PACER


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anson Asaka , Bradford M. Berry , NAACP, Baltimore, MD, Brendan Barrett Downes , Dorian L. Spence , Ezra David Rosenberg , Jon Marshall Greenbaum , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Britton D. Davis , Pro Hac Vice, Diana Jeschke , Eric Stahl , Pro Hac Vice, Jerome Paul Desanto, Jr. , Keith J. Harrison , Richard Edward Schwartz , Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC, Charles Nicholas Dorman , Joe Ramon Whatley, Jr. , Whatley Kailas, LLP, James Uriah Blacksher , Attorney at Law, Wilson Edward Still , Edward Still Law Firm LLC, Birmingham, AL, Joseph Mitchell McGuire , McGuire & Associates LLC, Montgomery, AL, Michael C. Keats , Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Jonathan Konig , Richard Stone , Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, New York, NY, Sima Namiri-Kalantari , Crowell & Moring LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs.

Brad A. Chynoweth , James William Davis , Misty Shawn Fairbanks Messick , Andrew Lynn Brasher , Laura Elizabeth Howell , Winfield James Sinclair , State of Alabama, Office of the Attorney General, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION... 1242

II. JURISDICTION AND VENUE... 1244

III. BACKGROUND... 1245

IV. STANDARD OF REVIEW FOR BENCH TRIALS... 1248

V. DISCUSSION... 1249

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