SRZ and Voting Rights Organizations Challenge Cobb County School Board Map Denying Equal Representation to Voters of Color

Co-counsel Schulte Roth & Zabel and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), ACLU of Georgia and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyer’s Committee) filed litigation challenging the Cobb County School Board map for intentionally discriminating against communities of color, particularly Black and Latinx voters, by “packing” them into a small number of districts to dilute their voting power.

“The makeup of Cobb County’s Board of Education should reflect its community, but the racially gerrymandered map at issue in this case has made that impossible,” said Thomas Mott with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. “We’re honored to join a great team of civil rights advocates and to leverage our extensive experience in litigation to support the Black and Latinx voters of Cobb County.”

Read the SCSJ press release here.