SCSJ represents individuals and community-based organizations in cases centered around justice system reform, voter rights, and environmental justice. We believe in creating the potential for structural change that will benefit underserved communities and have positive implications for racial justice, election protection, and environmental preservation. Our litigation extends to nonpartisan groups and people of color in local and statewide redistricting litigation across the South, and we have represented clients before the United States Supreme Court.
Our Cases
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.
Read More Petteway v. Galveston County![Person holding signs that say "no new jim crow" and "let the people vote"](https://southerncoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/shutterstock_2022239771-scaled.jpg)
Niecey Fennell
SCSJ represents the family of Uniece “Niecey” Fennell, a child who died in the Durham County Detention Facility in 2017.
Read More Niecey Fennell![Woman holding a sign that says "Niecey was a child"](https://southerncoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Niecey-1.jpg)
City of Greensboro, et al., v. Guilford County Board of Elections
This was a federal court challenge to the North Carolina legislature’s 2015 redistricting of the Greensboro City Council.
Read More City of Greensboro, et al., v. Guilford County Board of Elections![The city of Greensboro pinned on a state map](https://southerncoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/City-of-Greensboro-et-al.-v.-Guilford-County-Board-of-Elections.png)