New Orleans election plans lawsuit [US DC] News
New Orleans election plans lawsuit [US DC]

ACORN v. Blanco, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, February 9, 2006 [lawsuit alleging that Louisiana's emergency election plan for New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina will disenfranchise or severely burden the franchise of thousands of displaced voters, the vast majority of whom are African-American, and therefore violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act]. Read the complaint [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.