AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS UNION, in Its Individual and Corporate Capacities, Appellant v. PHILADELPHIA CITY COMMISSIONERS

OPINION OF THE COURT McKEE, Circuit Judge. The American Civil Rights Union (“ACRU”) challenges the Philadelphia City Commissioners’ failure to purge the city’s voter rolls of registered voters who are currently incarcerated due to a felony conviction. Because state law prohibits felons from voting while they are in prison, the

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 872 F.3d 175 · 2017-09-25

Key topics: civil, rights, equal, protection, section, 1983, discrimination, First, Amendment.

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