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South Carolina v. United States

Case Information

Date Filed: February 7, 2012
State: South Carolina
Issues: Voting Rights Act, Voter ID
Current Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Case 1:12-cv-00203)

Issue:

Whether the US Justice Department properly denied preclearance to South Carolina's Voter ID law under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act

Status:

Complaint filed 2/7/12. Answer filed 4/9/12. Trial set to begin 8/27/12. Opinion delaying implementation of Voter ID law until after 2012 election issued 10/10/12. Order Finding South Carolina Entitled to Costs with Certain Items Excluded filed 1/4/13.

District Court Documents

• Complaint (filed 2/7/12)
• Motion to Intervene (filed 2/24/12)
• Attorney General's Response to Motion to Intervene (filed 3/09/12)
• Order Adopting Motion to Intervene (filed 3/20/12)
• Answer of Defendant-Intervenors (filed 3/20/12)
• League of Women Voters' Motion to Intervene (filed 3/27/12)
• Motion to Intervene (filed 3/30/12)
• Order Granting Motion to Intervene (filed 4/04/12)
• Answer to Complaint for Declaratory Judgment (filed 4/04/12)
• Answer to Complaint for Declaratory Judgment (filed 4/04/12)
• Answer of Defendant U.S. (filed 4/09/12)
• Affidavit of Andino (filed 4/10/12)
• Statement of Defendants on Obsticles voters will have on Implementation of Act R54 (filed 4/23/12)
• Notice of South Carolina's Reponse (filed 4/25/12)
• Notice of Final Procedure (filed 4/30/12)
• Motion to Withdraw as Defendant-Intervenors (filed 5/24/12)
• Statement of Defendant-Intervenors Regarding Discovery (filed 5/28/12)
• United States Brief Outlining Outstanding Discovery Disputes (filed 5/28/12)
• South Carolina's Notice Outlining Discovery Issues (filed 5/28/12)
• United States' Response to South Carolina's Notice Outlining Discovery Issues (filed 5/30/12)
• United States' Notice as to its Brief Outlining Outstanding Discovery Disputes (filed 5/30/12)
• South Carolina's Response to United States' Brief Outlining Outstanding Discovery Disputes (filed 5/30/12)
• South Carolina's Response to Defendant-Intervenor's Statement Regarding Discovery (filed 5/30/12)
• United States' Further Notice as to Outstanding Discovery Issues (filed 5/31/12)
• South Carolina's Notice Outlining Outstanding Discovery Issues (filed 5/31/12)
• South Carolina's Response to United States' Further Notice as to Outstanding Discovery Issues (filed 5/31/12)
• Response of Defendant-Intervenors to South Carolina's Notice Outlining Outstanding Discovery Issues (filed 5/31/12)
• United States' Response to South Carolina's Notice Outlining Outstanding Discovery Issues (filed 5/31/12)
• Court Order on Discovery Disputes (filed 6/2/12)
• South Carolina's Notice Regarding Defendant-Intervenors' Interrogatory No. 1 (filed 6/4/12)
• Court Order on Discovery Disputes (filed 6/5/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Response to South Carolina's Notice Regarding Defendant-Intervenors' Interrogatory No. 1 (filed 6/5/12)
• South Carolina's Notice of Compliance with Court Order Regarding Submission for In Camera Review (filed 6/5/12)
• South Carolina's Notice of Non-Opposition (filed 6/6/12)
• South Carolina's Notice of Compliance with Court Order Regarding Document Requests With no Responsive Documents (filed 6/8/12)
• Court Order on Documents That Must be Produced and Those That May be Withheld (filed 6/8/12)
• South Carolina's Notice of Compliance with Court Order Regarding Voter Fraud Interrogatory (filed 6/9/12)
• South Carolina's Notice of Compliance with Interrogatories 1, 2 & 16 (filed 6/11/12)
• Court Order Granting South Carolina's Motion for a Protective Order (filed 6/11/12)
• United States' Motion to Modify Briefing Requirements (filed 6/22/12)
• Stipulation and Order for the Protection of Privacy Act Protected Information (filed 6/22/12)
• Notice of Intent to Call Live Witnesses at Trial (filed 6/22/12)
• Notice of United States' Designation of Live Trial Witnesses (filed 6/22/12)
• South Carolina's Notice Identifying Individuals State Intends to Call for Live Testimony (filed 6/22/12)
• Revised Notice of Intent to Call Live Witnesses at Trial (filed 6/24/12)
• Second Revised Notice of Intent to Call Live Witnesses at Trial (filed 6/24/12)
• Second Stipulation and Order for the Protection of Privacy Act Protected Information (filed 6/25/12)
• South Carolina's Opposition to United States' Motion to Modify Scheduling and Procedures Order (filed 6/25/12)
• Court Order Regarding Recordings of Committee and Subcommittee Meetings (filed 6/25/12)
• Affidavit of H. Christopher Bartolomucci (filed 6/27/12)
• South Carolina's Notice Answering the Court's Question (filed 6/29/12)
• Notice of Attorney General's Administrative Determination Under Section 5 of VRA (filed 6/29/12)
• Letter Re: South Carolina's Notice Answering the Court's Question (filed 6/30/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Response to South Carolina's Notice Answering the Court's Question (filed 7/2/12)
• Third Revised Scheduling and Procedures Order (filed 7/3/12)
• Supplemental Stipulation and Order for the Protection of Privacy Act Protected Information (filed 7/10/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Memorandum in Opposition to Plaintiff's Request for a Permanent Protective Order (filed 7/11/12)
• United States' Motion to Compel (filed 7/11/12)
• South Carolina's Memorandum in Opposition to United States' Motion to Compel (filed 7/13/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Supplement in Support of Defendants' Motion to Compel (filed 7/17/12)
• South Carolina's Response to Intervenors' Supplemental Memorandum (filed 7/18/12)
• Court Order on Privilege Logs (filed 7/20/12)
• Amended Notice of United States' Designation of Live Trial Witnesses (filed 7/21/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Revised Notice of Intent to Call Live Witnesses (filed 7/21/12)
• South Carolina's Amended Notice of Live Witnesses (filed 7/21/12)
• South Carolina's Memorandum in Further Opposition to United States' Motion to Compel Production (filed 7/25/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors Reply in Support of United States' Motion to Compel (filed 7/30/12)
• Reply Memorandum in Support of United States' Motion to Compel (filed 8/1/12)
• Trial Procedures Order (filed 8/7/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Motion to Strike South Carolina's Declaration and Rebuttal Expert Disclosure of Dr. Buchanan (filed 8/8/12)
• Joint Motion to Modify Trial Procedures Order (filed 8/10/12)
• Order Granting Motion to Modify Trial Procedures Order (filed 8/10/12)
• Order on Motion to Compel (filed 8/10/12)
• South Carolina's Memorandum in Opposition to Defendant-Intervenors' Motion to Strike (filed 8/11/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Supplemental Memorandum in Support of Motion to Strike (filed 8/12/12)
• Clarification of the Trial Procedures Order (filed 8/13/12)
• Plaintiff's Motion to Exclude Testimony Under Rule 702 (filed 8/13/12)
• Plaintiff's Motion to Exclude Testimony of Charles Stewart (filed 8/13/12)
• Court Order on Motion to Strike Testimony (filed 8/15/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Motion in Limine for an Adverse Inference (filed 8/15/12)
• Plaintiff's Motion in Limine to Exclude John C. Ruoff (filed 8/15/12)
• Joint Pre-Trial Submissions (filed 8/15/12)
• United States' Motion in Limine (filed 8/15/12)
• Joint Status Report Regarding Discovery (filed 8/15/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Motion in Support of United States' Motion in Limine (filed 8/15/12)
• Supplemental Memorandum in Support of the United States' Motion in Limine (filed 8/16/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Outline of Requested Additional Discovery (filed 8/16/12)
• South Carolina's Opposition to Motions to Exclude Evidence or Re-open Discovery (filed 8/16/12)
  • South Carolina's Supplemental Response to Motions to Exclude Evidence or Re-open Discovery (filed 8/17/12)
• Order on Motion in Limine (filed 8/17/12)
• August 17 Joint Pre-Trial Submission (filed 8/17/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Opposition to South Carolina's Motion in Limine (filed 8/20/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Supplemental Appendix Volume 1 (filed 8/20/12)
  • Volume 2 (filed 8/20/12)
  • Volume 3 (filed 8/20/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Separate Supplemental Appendix (filed 8/20/12)
• Joint Supplemental Pre-Trial Submission of Deposition Designations (filed 8/20/12)
• South Carolina's Supplemental Appendix (filed 8/20/12)
• South Carolina's Opposition to Defendant-Intervenors' Motion for an Adverse Inference (filed 8/20/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Response to Plaintiff's Motion to Exclude Dr. Ruoff (filed 8/20/12)
• United States' Notice of Filing Section 5 Determination (filed 8/20/12)
• Trial Brief of Defendant-Intervenors (filed 8/20/12)
• Memorandum in Opposition to South Carolina's Motion to Exclude (filed 8/20/12)
• Memorandum in Opposition to South Carolina's Motion to Exclude Dr. Stewart (filed 8/20/12)
• South Carolina's Trial Brief (filed 8/20/12)
• United States' Trial Brief (filed 8/20/12)
• Notice of Written Direct Testimony by Dr. Martin (filed 8/21/12)
• Written Direct Testimony of Dr. Burton (filed 8/22/12)
• Written Direct Testimony of Senator Hutto (filed 8/22/12)
• Written Direct Testimony of Dr. Quinn (filed 8/22/12)
• Written Direct Testimony of Dr. Ruoff (filed 8/22/12)
• Written Direct Testimony of Senator Scott (filed 8/22/12)
• Written Direct Testimony of Barbara Zia (filed 8/22/12)
• Request for Judicial Notice on County Elections' Hours of Operation (filed 8/22/12)
• Request for Judicial Notice of Ongoing Racial Discrimination in Voting (filed 8/22/12)
• Order on Motions in Limine (filed 8/22/12)
• Second Supplemental Joint Pre-Trial Submission (filed 8/22/12)
• South Carolina's Opposition to Defendant-Intervenors' Request for Judicial Notice as to other cases (filed 8/22/12)
• South Carolina's Reply in Support of Motions to Exclude (filed 8/22/12)
• Reply Memorandum in Support of Defendant-Intervenors' Request for Judicial Notice of Ongoing Racial Discrimination in Voting (filed 8/24/12)
• Court's Pre-Trial Order (filed 8/24/12)
• Objections to Written Testimony (filed 8/24/12)
• Revised Joint Pre-Trial Submission (filed 8/26/12)
• South Carolina's Surreply in Opposition to Intervenors' Request for Judicial Notice as to other cases and other laws (filed 8/27/12)
• South Carolina's Response to Court Order (filed 8/27/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Third Supplemental Appendix (filed 8/27/12)
• August 27th Joint Pre-Trial Submission (filed 8/27/12)
• Court Order on Supplemental Appendices (filed 8/28/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Response to Court Order (filed 8/28/12)
• South Carolina's Second Supplemental Appendix (filed 8/28/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Request for Additional Time (filed 8/28/12)
• South Carolina's Response to Defendant-Intervenors' Request for Additional Time (filed 8/28/12)
• South Carolina's Motion to Take Judicial Notice of the 2011 South Carolina Annual Transit Trends Report (filed 8/30/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Opposition to South Carolina's Request for Judicial Notice (filed 8/30/12)
• United States' Request for Judicial Notice of Census Bureau Data (filed 8/31/12)
• South Carolina's Responses to the Court's Questions Regarding Implementation (filed 8/31/12)
• United States Notice of Filing Section 5 Determination (filed 9/5/12)
• Intervenors' Request for Judicial Notice of Census Data (filed 9/5/12)
• Intervenors' Response to South Carolina's August 31 filing (filed 9/5/12)
• United States' Response to South Carolina's August 31 submission (filed 9/5/12)
• South Carolina's Opposition to Request for Judicial Notice of Census Data (filed 9/5/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Motion to Modify the August 28 Court Order (filed 9/6/12)
• United States' Motion to Exclude Dr. Buchanan (filed 9/7/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Proposed Findings of Fact (filed 9/7/12)
• United States Proposed Findings of Fact (filed 9/7/12)
• South Carolina's Proposed Findings of Fact (filed 9/7/12)
• United States' Emegency Motion to Strike South Carolina's Findings of Fact (filed 9/8/12)
• South Carolina's Opposition to Emergency Motion to Strike (filed 9/9/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Memorandum in Support of Emergency Motion to Strike (filed 9/9/12)
• South Carolina's Response to United States' Proposed Findings of Fact (filed 9/14/12)
• South Carolina's Response to Defendant-Intervenors' Proposed Findings of Fact (filed 9/14/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Response to South Carolina's Proposed Findings of Fact (filed 9/14/12)
• United States' Response to South Carolina's Proposed Findings of Fact (filed 9/14/12)
• South Carolina's Third Supplemental Appendix (filed 9/18/12)
• Third United States' Supplemental Appendix (filed 9/18/12)
• United States' Final Exhibit List (filed 9/18/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Final Exhibit List (filed 9/18/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Fourth Filing to Supplemental Appendix (filed 9/18/12)
• South Carolina's Final Exhibit List (filed 9/18/12)
• Memorandum in Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Exclude Dr. Buchanan (filed 9/19/12)
• South Carolina's Reply in Support of Proposed Findings of Fact (filed 9/19/12)
• United States' Reply in Support of Proposed Findings of Fact (filed 9/19/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Reply in Support of Proposed Findings of Fact (filed 9/20/12)
• Reply Memorandum in Support of United States' Motion to Exclude Expert Testimony (filed 9/22/12)
• Order Denying Declaratory Judgment for Plaintiffs in 2012, but Granting Declaratory Judgment Beginning in 2013 (filed 10/10/12)
• Opinion (filed 10/10/12)
• Bill of Costs (filed 10/31/12)
• Joint Motion for Extension of Time to File Response to Bill of Costs (filed 11/9/12)
• Defendant-Intervenors' Opposition to South Carolina's Bill of Costs (filed 11/30/12)
• United States' Memorandum in Opposition to South Carolina's Bill of Costs (filed 11/30/12)
• South Carolina's Reply in Support of its Bill of Costs (filed 12/14/12)
• Order Finding South Carolina Entitled to Costs with Certain Items Excluded (filed 1/4/13)
• South Carolina's Revised Bill of Costs (filed 1/11/13)
• Order on Costs (filed 1/16/13)