The Law Office of Bryan L. Sells

The Law Office of Bryan L. Sells The Law Office of Bryan L. Sells, LLC, is a boutique civil rights law firm specializing in voting ri So we march on.

Sells, LLC, is a boutique civil rights law firm specializing in voting rights, election law, and redistricting. We're here because the work of perfecting our democracy is not yet finished. Our country has made great progress since John Lewis and Hosea Williams led marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, more than fifty years ago, but much work remains to be done. We represent i

ndividual voters, civil rights organizations, political parties, and candidates in complex voting rights litigation under the U.S. Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act, and the Help America Vote Act. We also provide legal advice and counseling to select local governments on redistricting issues and compliance with federal election laws. We have litigated cases involving voter identification laws, vote dilution, access to polling places and early voting sites, felon disfranchisement, student voting rights, malapportionment, and more. We're based in Atlanta, Georgia, but our practice is national in scope. We have represented clients in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Montana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Wyoming, among other states. We have particular expertise in the area of Native American voting rights and have represented many tribal members in challenges to state and local voting practices.

Here's a good article about our voting-rights trial in North Dakota, which began yesterday.
06/13/2023

Here's a good article about our voting-rights trial in North Dakota, which began yesterday.

A bench trial has begung in Fargo in the federal lawsuit brought last year by two Native American tribes challenging North Dakota’s redistricting map the GOP-led Legislature approved in 2021

Yesterday I testified before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on legislative proposals to strengthen the ...
10/18/2019

Yesterday I testified before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on legislative proposals to strengthen the Voting Rights Act. My testimony was focused on the need for stronger protection for the right to vote in Indian Country. You can see the hearing and read the testimony at the link below.

Mr. Arturo Vargas Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund

Today, my co-counsel and I filed a new lawsuit challenging Georgia's discriminatory exact-match protocol, which is putti...
10/12/2018

Today, my co-counsel and I filed a new lawsuit challenging Georgia's discriminatory exact-match protocol, which is putting more than 50,000 voter-registration applications on hold. It's vote suppression by typo, and it disproportionately affects Latino, Asian-American, and African-American registrants. Here's the official press release.

Lawsuit filed by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and its partners on Behalf of Georgia Organizations WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and its partners filed a major lawsuit against Secretary of State Brian Kemp over the state of Geor...

03/17/2018

BREAKING: Federal court rules that the method of electing members of the school board in Sumter County, Georgia, dilutes African American voting strength in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

BREAKING:  Today, I filed a lawsuit on behalf of Georgia voters, prospective congressional candidates, and the Libertari...
11/21/2017

BREAKING: Today, I filed a lawsuit on behalf of Georgia voters, prospective congressional candidates, and the Libertarian Party of Georgia challenging Georgia's exclusionary ballot-access restrictions.

A lawsuit by the Libertarian Party of Georgia is attempting to end a state law requiring thousands of signatures for third-party candidates for Congress.

10/18/2017

Victory! The consent decree makes permanent the relief we won in a preliminary injunction in the CD6 runoff case in Georgia.

https://lawyerscommittee.org/press-release/lawyers-committee-announces-settlement-major-voting-rights-lawsuit-georgia/

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and its pro bono counsel Hogan Lovells US LLP, and the Law Office of Bryan L. Sells, LLC., announced a major victory Wednesday related to its lawsuit challenging a Georgia law that cuts off voter registration for federal run-off el...

MOTION GRANTED!  A federal district court in Utah just granted my clients' motion for an injunction to get on the ballot...
08/02/2017

MOTION GRANTED! A federal district court in Utah just granted my clients' motion for an injunction to get on the ballot in the special election to fill the seat vacated by former Congressman Jason Chaffetz. We are very pleased with the judge's 50-page ruling.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2017/08/02/judge-overrules-state-election-leaders-orders-new-utah-party-and-candidate-to-be-included-on-special-election-ballot/

A federal judge ordered Utah election officials on Wednesday to include the new United Utah Party and its candidate Jim Bennett on the ballot in the November special election to replace former Rep. Jason Chaffetz.

Had a hearing today in federal district court in Salt Lake City in our challenge to Utah’s exclusionary process for fill...
07/14/2017

Had a hearing today in federal district court in Salt Lake City in our challenge to Utah’s exclusionary process for filling the vacancy created by Representative Jason Chaffetz's resignation. My clients are the United Utah Party, candidate Jim Bennett, and Utah voters who want a choice at the ballot box. I feel good about the hearing. The judge was well prepared. We expect a ruling soon. http://www.sltrib.com/news/5509960-155/new-utah-party-argues-state-unfairly

The lawyer for Jim Bennett and his new United Utah Party argued in federal court Friday that unreasonable state rules would have required them to magically read minds in order to qualify for a special ...

Today, I filed a new lawsuit on behalf of the United Utah Party, which has been unfairly shut out of the special electio...
06/21/2017

Today, I filed a new lawsuit on behalf of the United Utah Party, which has been unfairly shut out of the special election to replace Congressman Jason Chaffetz. You can read more about it here.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865683420/United-Utah-Party-sues-for-access-on-special-election-ballot.html

A newly formed Utah political party filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the lieutenant governor's office seeking to gain access to the ballot for the 3rd District special election to replace Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah.

05/17/2017

Today is the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Give Us the Ballot" speech. I have posted my reflections on the speech here: http://www.bryansellslaw.com/news/2017/5/17/reflections-of-a-voting-rights-litigator-on-the-sixtieth-anniversary-of-martin-luther-kings-give-us-the-ballot-speech

by Bryan L. Sells May 17, 2017 On May 17, 1957, just a few months after the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and exactly three years after the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that struck down segregation in public schools, Dr. King gave a major speec

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