QUESTION PRESENTED:
Whether Congress' decision in 2006 to reauthorize Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act under the pre-existing coverage formula of Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act exceeded its authority under the Fifteenth Amendment and thus violated the Tenth Amendment and Article IV of the United States Constitution.
12-96
Shelby County, Alabama, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General, et al.
Docket No., 12-96
Arguement Date: February 27, 2013
Merit Briefs
- Brief for Petitioner Shelby County, Alabama
- Brief for the Respondent, Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney Gerneral, et al.
- Brief for Respondent-Intervenor, Bobby Lee Harris
- Brief for Respondent-Intervenors Bobby Pierson, Willie Goldsmith, Sr., Mary Paxton-Lee, Kenneth Dukes, and Alabama State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Brief for Respondent-Intervenors Earl Cunningham, Harry Jones, Albert Jones, Ernest Montgomery, Anthony Vines, and William Walker
- Brief for Section 5 Litigation Intervenors
- Reply Brief for the Petitioner, Shelby County Alabama
Amicus Briefs
- Brief for Abraham Lincoln Foundation for Public Policy Research, Inc., America’s Prayer Network, Christians Reviving America’s Values, U.S. Justice Foundation, and Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Alabama in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Alaska in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for the American Unity Legal Defense Fund in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina, and South Dakota in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Cato Institute in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Former Government Officials in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for John Nix, Anthony Cuomo, and Dr. Abigail Thernstrom in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for the Judicial Education Project in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Justice and Freedom Fund in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Landmark Legal Foundation in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Mountain States Legal Foundation in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for the National Black Chamber of Commerce in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Pacific Legal Foundation, Center for Equal Opportunity, and American Civil Rights Foundation in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Project 21 in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Reason Foundation in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Southeastern Legal Foundation in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Texas in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Alabama Legislative Black Caucus and Alabama Association of Black County Officials, in Support of Respondents
- Brief for the Alaska Federation of Natives, Alaska Native Voters and Tribes in Support of Respondents
- Brief for the American Bar Association in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Asian American Public Interest Groups in Support of Respondents
- Brief for the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law in Support of Respondents
- Brief for the City of New York, the Council of the City of New York, Michael R. Bloomberg, in his Capacity as Mayor of the City of New York, and Christine C. Quinn, in her Official Capacity as the Speaker of the City Council of the City of New York, in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Constitutional Law Scholars and Constitutional Accountability Center in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Dick Thornburgh, Drew S. Days, Iii, John R. Dunne, Bill Lann Lee, J. Stanley Pottinger, Paul F. Hancock, James P. Turner, William R. Yeomans, Brian K. Landsberg, and Gilda R. Daniels in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Ellen D. Katz and the Voting Rights Initiative in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Gabriel Chin, Atiba Ellis, Christopher S. Elmendorf, Janai S. Nelson, Bertrall Ross, Daniel Tokaji, and Franita Tolson in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Historians and Social Scientists in Support of Respondents
- Brief for the Honorable Congressman John Lewis in Support Of Respondents and Intervenor-Respondents
- Brief for Joaquin Avila, Neil Bradley, Julius Chambers, U.W. Clemon, Armand Derfner, Jose Garza, Fred Gray, Robert Mcduff, Rolando Rios, Robert Rubin, Edward Still, Ellis Turnage, and Ronald Wilson in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Jurisdictions that Have Bailed Out in Support of Respondents and Urging Affirmance
- Brief for the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Leadership Conference Education Fund et al. in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Marcia L. Fudge, Member of Congress and Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Ruben Hinojosa, Member of Congress and Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Judy Chu, Member of Congress and Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, et al. in Support of Respondents
- Brief for National Bar Association in Support of Respondents
- Brief for the Navajo Nation, Leonard Gorman, Anthony Wounded Head, Sr., and Oliver J. Semans, Sr., in Support of Respondents and Respondent-Intervenors
- Brief for National Latino Organizations in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Political Science and Law Professors in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Professor Patricia A. Broussard, Sabrina Collins, Stacy Hane, Akunna Olumba and Named Students and Organizations of Florida A & M University College of Law in Support of Respondents
- Brief for National Lawyers Guild in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Professors Richard L. Engstrom, Theodore S. Arrington, and David T. Canon in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Reps. F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., John Conyers, Jr., Steve Chabot, Jerrold Nadler, Melvin L. Watt, and Robert C. Scott in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Senator C. Bradley Hutto, Senator Gerald Malloy, Senator John L. Scott, Jr., Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter, and the League of Women Voters of South Carolina in Support of Respondents
- Brief for the States of New York, California, Mississippi, and North Carolina in Support of Respondents
- Brief for the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement in Support of Respondents and Intervenor-Respondents
- Brief for Merced County, California, in Support of Neither Party
