John Devaney was quoted in The New York Times article, "How a Supreme Court Decision Curtailed the Right to Vote in Wisconsin," regarding his proposal to extend the deadline for mail ballots past Election Day.

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that it was named to The National Law Journal’s 2019 Appellate Hot List, an annual list of law firms that have won key matters before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeals.

Announced on October 25, 2019, Perkins Coie was one of the law firms chosen by National Law Journal for the 2019 Appellate Hot List.

Perkins Coie secured a significant 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision on June 17 for 12 Virginia voters in a constitutional challenge to a Virginia House of Delegates’ redistricting map arising under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Perkins Coie secured a significant 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision on June 17, 2019 for 12 Virginia voters in a constitutional challenge to a Virginia House of Delegates’ redistricting map arising under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

In a third time win for Perkins Coie attorney Marc Elias before the U.S. Supreme Court in redistricting lawsuits, on May 22, 2017, the Court upheld a federal district court decision that struck down North Carolina’s 1st and 12th Congressional Districts as racial gerrymanders in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Perkins Coie was involved in two major victories for voting rights activists in decisions issued by federal courts in Wisconsin and North Carolina, both of which are likely to result in the participation of thousands of more voters in the presidential election in those states in November.