SCSJ and TCRP are representing Savanna Batten on appeal, who was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison after exercising her First Amendment right to protest.
Taxonomy: Texas
Petteway v. Galveston County
SCSJ and co-counsel filed this challenge to the Galveston County Commissioners’ 2021 precinct map in April 2022 on behalf of three local NAACP branches, the local Galveston LULAC Council 151, and three Black and Latino voters.
Fair Maps Texas Action Committee v. Abbott
Southern Coalition for Social Justice filed this challenge to Texas’s new 2021 state legislative and congressional maps.
Texas v. Charles Kleinert
SCSJ represented the NAACP of Austin and the Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches as amici curiae in a case involving an Austin, Texas, police officer who killed a Black man during a criminal investigation.
Texas v. United States
SCSJ represented the Texas NAACP against the state of Texas, in which Texas is seeking federal preclearance for its Congressional, State House and State Senate redistricting plans.
Abbott v. Perez
Southern Coalition for Social Justice challenged Texas’s congressional and state house redistricting after the 2010 census on behalf of the Texas State Conference of the NAACP and five individuals. In their complaint, plaintiffs alleged Texas’s 2011 and 2013 maps were intentionally racially discriminatory in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act.