Legal Opinion

COMMONG CAUSE/GEORGIA v. Billups

District Court, N.D. Georgia

Decided October 18, 2005No. CIVA. 4:05CV0201HLMPublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

HAROLD L. MURPHY, District Judge.

This case is an action to have the photo identification (“Photo ID”) requirement in the 2005 amendment to O.C.G.A. § 21-2-417 (Act No. 53), declared unconstitutional both on its face and as applied, and to enjoin its enforcement on the ground that it imposes an unauthorized, unnecessary, and undue burden on the fundamental right to vote of hundreds of thousands of registered Georgia voters, in violation of article II, section 1, paragraph 2 of the Georgia Constitution, the Fourteenth and Twenty-Fourth Amendments to the federal Constitution, the Civil…

2Cases cited38 opinions

  1. Warth v. SeldinSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  2. Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  3. Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. HaldermanSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  4. Edelman v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  5. Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 2000

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. In Re Request for Advisory Opinion Regarding Constitutionality of 2005 Pa 71Michigan Supreme Court · 2007
  2. Indiana Democratic Party v. RokitaDistrict Court, S.D. Indiana · 2006
  3. Veasey v. PerryDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 2014
  4. Martin v. KempDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 2018
  5. Democratic Exec. Comm. of Fla. v. DetznerDistrict Court, N.D. Florida · 2018

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