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Abbott v. Perez
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anchored
in Nueces County (home to Corpus Christi) and follows the
Gulf of Mexico to the northeast before taking a turn inland
to the northwest in the
- Question Presented
- Whether the 2013 Texas congressional and state House redistricting plans violated the Equal Protection Clause (racial gerrymandering), Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (vote dilution), and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments (intentional discrimination) — and specifically whether the district court erred by finding that the 2011 discriminatory intent "carried over" into the 2013 plans enacted by the Legislature; holding that certain districts were racial gerrymanders where race was the predominant factor; finding Section 2 vote dilution in certain districts where plaintiffs could not demonstrate that an additional compact minority opportunity district was possible; and applying the wrong legal standard in distinguishing between racial motivation and partisan motivation in redistricting.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Voters' Rights
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 25, 2018
- Date added
- Jul 14, 2026
Judgment
Baker v. Carr
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foreign governments. Compare Ex parte Peru, 318 U. S.
578, with Mexico v. Hoffman, 324 U. S. 30, 34-35.
Dates of duration of hostilities: Though
- Question Presented
- Whether a claim alleging that a state's legislative apportionment scheme violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment — by diluting the voting power of citizens in overpopulated districts — presents a justiciable controversy or is a non-justiciable "political question" that federal courts lack authority to adjudicate. This issue required the Court to revisit and overturn the precedent of Colegrove v. Green, 328 U.S. 549 (1946), which had held that federal courts should not intervene in reapportionment disputes.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Voters' Rights
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Mar 26, 1962
- Date added
- Jul 12, 2026
Judgment
Shelby County v. Holder
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subject to federal preclearance by court
orders, including the States of New Mexico and Arkansas.
App. to Brief for Federal Respondent 1a–3a.
This experience exposes
- Question Presented
- Whether the coverage formula in Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act — which determined which jurisdictions were subject to the preclearance requirement of Section 5 — remained constitutionally valid after Congress reauthorized it in 2006 without updating the formula, given that the formula was based on decades-old data (voter registration and turnout from the 1960s and early 1970s) and practices (literacy tests) that had since been banned nationwide. More broadly, whether the formula violated the constitutional principle of equal sovereignty among the states by subjecting only certain jurisdictions to the extraordinary federal intrusion of preclearance.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Voters' Rights
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 25, 2013
- Date added
- Jul 9, 2026
Judgment
Tennessee v. Lane
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F Reilly of Massachusetts, Jeremiah W.
(Jay)Nixon of Missouri, PatriciaA Madrid of New Mexico, Eliot Spitzer
of New York, William H. Sorrell of Vermont, Christine 0. Gregoire
- Question Presented
- Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act validly abrogates state sovereign immunity under the 11th Amendment and whether people with disabilities have a right to access courts to lodge fundamental rights claims, including electoral disputes.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Criminal Procedure
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 17, 2004
- Date added
- Jul 7, 2026
Judgment
Advocate Prem Chandra Rai vs Government of Nepal
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vote
is sent to the home country through post. Countries like Canada, Norway,
Mexico, and Switzerland seem to be using this method. The third method
of giving
- Question Presented
- Whether Nepali citizens residing abroad should be given the opportunity to vote from the country in which they currently reside. Whether restricted voting rights on Nepali citizens living abroad violates the constitutional right to vote.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Out of Country Voting
- Country
- Nepal
- Language of Decision
- Nepali
- Date of decision
- Mar 21, 2018
- Date added
- Jan 13, 2023
Judgment
SUP-REP-16/2016 Y SUP-REP-22/2016 ACUMULADOS
- Question Presented
- Whether the Green Party of Mexico and various famous persons were rightfully sanctioned for alleged campaign violations.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Apr 20, 2016
- Date added
- Oct 26, 2021
Judgment
(Mexico) SUP 2020 REC 102 924628
- Question Presented
- Whether indigenous customs for men to elect political leaders outweigh the principles of non-discrimination, equality and gender parity, as well as the right of "every woman [...] to a life free of violence, both in the public and private spheres" and to "freely and fully exercise their political rights.”
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Indigenous Persons
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Sep 15, 2020
- Date added
- Jul 1, 2021
Judgment
(Mexico) SM JDC 0167 2021
- Question Presented
- Whether it was incorrect that the request for a citizen's trial that he filed in the initial instance was processed as a complaint, considering that this is the ideal way in which a favorable resolution could be obtained that guarantees the inclusion of members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Whether political parties are obligated to have a quota for candidates that identify as LGBTQIA+ to guarantee their inclusion in the political process.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Mar 31, 2021
- Date added
- Jul 1, 2021
Judgment
(Mexico) SCM JDC 0412 2021
Procedural history
Plaintiffs appealed to the Mexico City Regional Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial
- Question Presented
- Whether there is an obligation among political parties to comply with a candidate quota that included people from the LGBTQIA + community even though there was no legal order or law to do so.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Apr 3, 2021
- Date added
- Jul 1, 2021
Judgment
(Mexico) SX JE 0003 2021
- Question Presented
- Whether there were procedural irregularities in the lower court’s decision based on the timeliness of the complaint and lack of notice by the court. Whether evidence from Facebook and WhatsApp demonstrating gender based political violence were illegally obtained and possess the truth and veracity it asserts.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Jan 21, 2021
- Date added
- Jun 23, 2021
Judgment
Chiafalo v. Washington
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has no connection to elector appointment. See
ante, at 5. For example, New Mexico imposes a legal duty
on its electors: “All presidential electors shall cast
- Question Presented
- Whether a pledge requirement and sanction violates the Electors Constitutional right to pledge electoral votes regardless of voter preference?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jul 6, 2020
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
Judgment
PAN v. PRI (SM JIN 0035 2015)
- Question Presented
- Whether the Governor's presence and irregularities are sufficient to annul the election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Social Media
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Aug 4, 2017
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
Judgment
MOREA v. Party of Institutional Revolutionary (SUP 2015 REP 544 499367)
- Question Presented
- Whether the dissemination of campaign materials on twitter accounts of candidate and alternate candidates violate the electoral silence laws?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- Social Media
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Apr 20, 2016
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
Judgment
Institutional Revolutionary Party v. Miguel Angel Yunes Linares (SUP JRC 0168 2016)
- Question Presented
- Whether Facebook posts that indicate a political position, but do not solicit votes constitute pre-campaign activity.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Apr 25, 2016
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
Judgment
Institutional Revolutionary Party v. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (SUP RAP 0268 2012)
- Question Presented
- Whether Twitter posts and Youtube videos constitute campaign acts?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- May 24, 2012
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
Judgment
In Re Case No. 9768, 9780 & 9828
- Question Presented
- Whether the elections violated the citizen’s political rights even though the domestic options were exhausted.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- EMB Independence
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 17, 1990
- Date added
- Jul 8, 2020
Judgment
Tanganyika Law Society v. Tanzania
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the decision in the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights; Castañeda Gutman v Mexico,
Judgment of 6 August 2008 Series C No 184 to the effect that the
- Question Presented
- Whether the Tanzania regulation prohibiting independent candidates from seeking public office is unconstitutional?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Tanzania. United Republic of
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 14, 2019
- Date added
- Aug 1, 2019
Judgment
Mexico SUP JDC 304 2018
- Question Presented
- The High Chamber of the confirmed the validity of the candidacy of two transgender people (muxes in the state of Oaxaca) to occupy public posts reserved for women and revoked the registration of 15 male candidates.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Jun 21, 2018
- Date added
- Jul 16, 2019
Judgment
SUP RAP 0173 2018
- Question Presented
- The TEPJF instructs the INE to issue a new resolution on the registration of Jaime Heliodoro Rodríguez as an independent candidate to the Presidency of the Republic.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Apr 9, 2018
- Date added
- Jul 16, 2019
Judgment
SUP RAP 0042 2018
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electronic Voting
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Mar 22, 2018
- Date added
- Jul 16, 2019
Judgment
SUP RAP 0749 2017
- Question Presented
- The Electoral Tribunal considered that the pre-opening of ballot boxes for the identification of improperly deposited ballots by citizens on Election Day exceeds the attributions of the National Electoral Institute, and trespasses the principles of legislative power, legal certainty and safety, by modifying the scrutiny and count procedure, as well as of the transfer of electoral packages.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Feb 14, 2018
- Date added
- Jul 16, 2019
Judgment
Kham v. Electoral Commission
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for
Sustainable Democracy), Elections Canada, INE (the National Electoral Institute of Mexico), IFES, The Carter
Center, UNDESA, UNDP and the UNEAD (United Nations Electoral
- Question Presented
- Should elections be annulled when the IEC did not provide timely access to voter rolls to the petitioners before elections?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Voter Registration
- Country
- South Africa
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Nov 1, 2015
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2019
Judgment
SUP RAP 726 2017
- Question Presented
- Political parties and coalitions must register indigenous peoples´ representatives as candidates in at least 13 electoral districts
- Legal Issue(s)
- Quotas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Dec 14, 2017
- Date added
- Jun 19, 2019
Judgment
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