Former Congressman G.K. Butterfield testified Monday that he performed considerably worse in largely white precincts than he ...

The lawsuit was brought by residents of the town of Newburgh who claimed its at-large election system diluted the vote of ...

A NY appeals court on Thursday upheld a 2022 law meant to protect minority voting clout. It had been found unconstitutional ...

The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, Second Department, upheld the constitutionality of New York’s Voting ...

A New York appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling striking down a state law that prohibits local governments from ...

For the first time, 186 Pakistani Hindu refugees in Delhi exercised their voting rights after obtaining Indian citizenship ...

On January 30, 2025, the Appellate Division Second Department handed down a decision regarding the constitutionality of the ...

A state appellate court on Thursday unanimously reinstated New York's John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2022, a law that prohibits "vote dilution" actions by municipalities. In a ruling penned by ...

His stances, which include unscientific beliefs that AIDS is not caused by HIV and that a large number of vaccines should be ...

The ruling affirms the law’s prohibition on vote dilution and sends the case back to a lower court to assess whether the Town of Newburgh’s election process violated the NYVRA. James has been a strong ...

NY's John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act upheld in court against challenges to its provisions against racially discriminatory vote dilution.