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Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

Black History Month: Remembering the NJ-Born Physician Who Became the First Black Lawyer Admitted to Practice before the Supreme...

Born in Elsinborough Township in Salem County, New Jersey on October 13, 1825, John S. Rock was a person with amazing talents. After years of working as a physician, for health reasons he turned to the practice of law and in...more

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak

Second Department Reverses Trial Court and Holds State Voting Rights Act to Be Constitutional

On January 30, 2025, the Appellate Division Second Department handed down a decision regarding the constitutionality of the New York State Voting Rights Act. The case, Clarke v. Town of Newburgh, concerned a challenge under...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Reviewing the 2022 SCOTUS Term

In this special episode, Akin Supreme Court and appellate practice head Pratik Shah and partner Aileen McGrath look back at the tumultuous 2022 Supreme Court Term....more

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak

Holtzman Vogel Supreme Court Review, October Term 2022

By: Jason Torchinsky, Ed Wenger, Jan Baran, Jonathan P. Lienhard, Kent Safriet, and David Brown The Supreme Court wrapped up its decisions from the October 2022 Term, with a blockbuster final week addressing issues like...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Wisconsin Legislature v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

On March 23, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Wisconsin Legislature v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, No. 21A471, holding that the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in accepting state Assembly and Senate maps that the Governor...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

City of Santa Monica Successfully Defends its At-Large Voting System

California Appellate Court Holds Plaintiffs Must Establish “Dilution” to Successfully Challenge At-Large Voting Systems Under CVRA - Recently, the City of Santa Monica prevailed in a California Appellate Court case that...more

Sands Anderson PC

A Revolution Brewing: Partisan Gerrymandering May be Unconstitutional

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It’s been true for a long time, since nearly the dawn of the Republic, that politicians drafting voting districts have tinkered with borders of those districts for a host of reasons. Indeed, “gerrymandering,” owes its name to...more

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