Cases

ORDER Thomas D. Schroeder, United States District Judge Before the court is the “Emergency Motion to Enforce The Injunction” filed by the “Duke Intervenor” Plaintiffs in these consolidated cases. (Doc. 439.)1 Duke In-tervenors also seek an order to show cause why Defendants should not be held in contempt of court. (Doc. 440 at 20.) No other Plaintiff has joined in the motion or s

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER THOMAS D. SCHROEDER, District Judge. In these consolidated cases, Plaintiff North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and certain other organizations and individual plaintiffs (“NAACP Plaintiffs”) in case L13CV658 move to preliminarily enjoin Defendants from implementing North Carolina’s voter photo-identification (“ID”) requirement in the March 2016 primary election. (Doc.

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 L13CV861; Docs. 10

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Thomas D. Schroeder, United States District Judge TABLE OF CONTENTS I.FINDINGS OF FACT... 332 A. North Carolina Voting Laws... 332 1. Voter ID... 332 2. Early Voting... 332 3. Out-of-Precinct Provisional Voting... 334

DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge, dissenting as to Part V.B.: We have held that in 2013, the General Assembly, acting with discriminatory intent, enacted a photo ID requirement to become effective in 2016. But in 2015, before the requirement ever went into effect, the legislature significantly amended the law. North Carolina recently held two elections in which the photo ID requirement, as amended, was in effec

(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2021 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit

DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge, dissenting: With great respect for my colleagues’ contrary views and genuine regret that we cannot agree on the outcome of these important cases, I dissent. At the center of these cases are changes made by the North Carolina General Assembly to the State’s election laws. Plaintiff-Appellants and the United States moved the district court to grant a preliminar

PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 20-1092 NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NAACP; CHAPEL HILL- CARRBORO NAACP; GREENSBORO NAACP; HIGH POINT NAACP; MOORE COUNTY NAACP; STOKES COUNTY BRANCH OF THE NAACP; WINSTON SALEM – FORSYTH COUNTY NAACP, Plaintiffs - Appellees, v. KEN

USCA4 Appeal: 24-1095 Doc: 49 Filed: 03/28/2024 Pg: 1 of 97 PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 24-1095 RODNEY D. PIERCE; MOSES MATTHEWS, Plaintiffs – Appellants, v. THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BO

USCA4 Appeal: 24-1512 Doc: 104 Filed: 09/12/2025 Pg: 1 of 25 PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 24-1512 NORTH CAROLINA A. PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE; ACTION NC, Plaintiffs – Appellees, v. NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS; FRANCIS X. DE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA 2022-NCSC-99 No. 261A18-3 Filed 19 August 2022 NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE v. TIM MOORE, in his official capacity, and PHILIP BERGER, in his official capacity. Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of

PER CURIAM: On August 11, 2016, this Court held that the North Carolina General Assembly unjustifiably relied on race to draw dozens of state Senate and House of Representatives district lines, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Covington v. North Carolina (Covington I ), 316 F.R.D. 117</

MEMORANDUM OPINION Circuit Judge James A. Wynn, Jr., wrote the opinion, in which District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder and District Judge Catherine C. Eagles joined: Over two years ago, in May 2015, thirty-one registered North Carolina voters (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed this action alleging that the North Carolina General Assembly unjustifiably, and therefore un

MEMORANDUM OPINION James A. Wynn, Jr., United States Circuit Judge Circuit Judge James A. Wynn, Jr., wrote the opinion, in which District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder and District Judge Catherine C. Eagles joined: More than two decades ago, the Supreme Court considered a legal challenge to election districts that assigned voters to districts primarily on the basis of race. Shaw v. Reno (Shaw

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA 2022-NCSC-99 No. 261A18-3 Filed 19 August 2022 NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE v. TIM MOORE, in his official capacity, and PHILIP BERGER, in his official capacity. Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of

MEMORANDUM OPINION Roger L. Gregory, United States Circuit Judge Circuit Judge Roger L. Gregory wrote the majority opinion, in which District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr., joined and filed a separate concurrence. District Judge William L. Osteen, Jr., joined in part and filed a dissent as to Part II.A.2: “[T]he Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment ... desired to place clear limits on the S

USCA11 Case: 18-10151 Date Filed: 06/01/2021 Page: 1 of 34 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 18-10151 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 2:15-cv-02193-LSC GREATER BIRMINGHAM MINISTRIES, ALABAMA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NATION

USCA11 Case: 18-10151 Date Filed: 04/09/2021 Page: 1 of 96 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT No. 18-10151 D.C. Docket No. 2:15-cv-02193-LSC GREATER BIRMINGHAM MINISTRIES, ALABAMA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, GIOVANA

Case: 18-10151 Date Filed: 07/21/2020 Page: 1 of 97 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT No. 18-10151 D.C. Docket No. 2:15-cv-02193-LSC GREATER BIRMINGHAM MINISTRIES, ALABAMA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, GIOVANA AMBROSIO, ELIZABETH WA

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 425A21-3 Filed 2 April 2026 HOKE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., plaintiffs and CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG BOARD OF EDUCATION, plaintiff-intervenor and RAFAEL PENN, et al., plaintiff-intervenors v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA and the STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, defendants and CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG BOARD OF EDUCATION, realigned defendant and PHILI