| Muntaqim v. Coombe | |
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| Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
| Full case name | Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, also known as Anthony Bottom, v. Phillip Coombe, Anthony Annucci, and Louis F. Mann |
| Argued | March 10, 2003 |
| Reargued | June 22,2005 |
| Decided | May 4, 2006 |
| Citation | 449 F.3d 371 |
| Case history | |
| Prior history | 366 F.3d 102 (2d Cir. 2004); cert. denied, 543 U.S. 978 (2004). |
| Court membership | |
| Judges sitting | John M. Walker Jr., Thomas Joseph Meskill, Richard J. Cardamone, Dennis Jacobs, Guido Calabresi, José A. Cabranes, Chester J. Straub, Rosemary S. Pooler, Robert D. Sack, Sonia Sotomayor, Robert Katzmann, Barrington Daniels Parker Jr., Reena Raggi, Richard C. Wesley, Peter W. Hall |
| Case opinions | |
| Per curiam | |
Muntaqim v. Coombe, 449 F.3d 371 (2d Cir. 2006), was a legal challenge to New York State’s law disenfranchising individuals convicted of felonies while in prison and on parole. The plaintiff, Jalil Abdul Muntaqim who was serving a life sentence at the time, argued that the law had a disproportionate impact on African Americans and therefore violated Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act as a denial of the right to vote on account of race.[1][2]
- ^ Ronald W. Walters (2005). Freedom Is Not Enough: Black Voters, Black Candidates, and American Presidential Politics. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 103. ISBN 0-7425-3837-0.
Muntaqim v. Coombe.
- ^ Jeff Manza, Christopher Uggen (2006). Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-514932-7.