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LWV Indiana, Common Cause Indiana, the Anderson-Madison County NAACP, and individual voters in Anderson, Indiana, District 3, filed a lawsuit in federal court, asserting the city council districts were malapportioned with several districts being overpopulated, in violation of federal and state law requiring them to be equally populated. The plaintiffs argued this disparity violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The League of Women Voters of the United States and the League of Women Voters of Oregon filed an amicus brief supporting youth plaintiffs seeking an order for the federal government to prepare a plan to phase out fossil fuel emissions. The plaintiffs, a group of young Americans under the age of 21, argued that by promoting the export and production of fossil fuels, and failing to mitigate climate change, the government violated their rights under the Fifth and Ninth Amendments to a stable climate system and the Public Trust Doctrine.