SCSJ is standing up against the family policing system on behalf of Sheryl Smith, a dedicated activist in the Durham community for nearly two decades.
Taxonomy: Closed (Judgement)
Republican National Committee v. North Carolina State Board of Elections, et. al.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the North Carolina Republican Party filed a complaint on Sept. 12 to stop University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) students from using their digital Mobile One Cards as identification cards to vote in the 2024 electio…
Lackey v. Stinnie
SCSJ and others called on the United States Supreme Court as amici curiae to preserve everyday people’s ability to fight for their civil rights in court, no matter their income or resources.
Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
SCSJ and a coalition of civil rights groups called upon the U.S. Supreme Court as amici curiae to affirm that South Carolina’s congressional map is racially gerrymandered, in violation of the 14th Amendment.
T.N. NAACP v. Lee
SCSJ filed this challenge to Tennessee’s congressional and state Senate districts on behalf of five organizations, challenging the new voting plans as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.
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.
Karon Joye
SCSJ is submitting a clemency petition to the Juvenile Sentencing Review Board (JSRB) on behalf of Karon Joye. Karon was sentenced to over 34 years in prison for a crime he committed when he was 14 years old.
Bouvier v. Porter
This was a North Carolina state court defamation case on behalf of four registered voters (Louis M. Bouvier, Jr., Karen Andrea Niehans, Samuel R. Niehans, and Joseph D. Golden) who were wrongfully accused of committing fraud in the 2016 elections by voting in multiple s…
Common Cause v. Byrd
SCSJ and co-counsel filed a federal challenge to the 2022 Florida congressional map that discriminatorily diminishes the ability of Black voters to elect candidates of their choice.
The Prosecution of the Alamance Five
Case Summary In cases that highlighted the intersection between our justice system reform and voting rights work, Southern Coalition for Social Justice represented five individuals who were charged in Alamance County, North Carolina, with voting while ineligible due...
City & County of San Francisco v. Sheehan
SCSJ filed a “friend of the court” brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Policy Council on Law Enforcement and the Mentally Ill in a case where Teresa Sheehan was shot by police after brandishing a knife.
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.