Overview
(January 31, 2025, New York) – The Steptoe team, along with their co-counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), LatinoJustice PRLDEF, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), that reached a historic settlement establishing fair and equitable legislative maps for Black, Latino, and Asian voters in Nassau County, New York has been recognized as a runner-up in The AmLaw Litigation Daily Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs. The landmark achievement—resolving one of the first lawsuits brought under New York's John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act—marked the first settlement of its kind. Through a consent decree signed on January 23, 2025 by Justice Paul Marx in New York Communities for Change v. Nassau County, a revised map will create six districts where Black, Latino, and Asian residents constitute a majority of eligible voters, along with an additional district to rectify the prior map’s dilution of Asian voting influence. This new map will govern Nassau County’s legislative elections through the 2032 redistricting cycle.
The Steptoe team was led by partner Michael G. Scavelli, and included partners Evan Glassman, Jason Abel, and Lorrie Marcil, of counsel David Kahne, associates Ida Adibi, Elizabeth Goodwin, Ciara Davis, Kylie Clouse, and Laura Niday, paralegal Kimberly Gulino, and pre-law fellows Ruby Donaghu and Isabella Inouye.
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