"Fifty years from Bloody Sunday, our march is not yet finished."
— President Obama at the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Selma, Alabama, March 7, 2015
Welcome
"The Obamas and the Bushes continue across the bridge"
Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson.
Welcome to The Law Office of Bryan L. Sells, LLC. We're 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 sixty years ago, but much work remains to be done. So we march on.
We represent individual 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.
"Participants in the Selma to Montgomery March, 1965," by Peter Pettus.
We have litigated cases involving partisan gerrymandering, voter identification laws, vote dilution, access to polling places and early voting sites, felon disfranchisement, student voting rights, malapportionment, campaign finance, and more.
We're based in Atlanta, Georgia, but our practice is national in scope. We have represented clients in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West 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.
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Experience
"E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse"
by AgnosticPreachersKid, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
New York Partisan Gerrymandering: Coads v. Nassau County
Georgia Vote Dilution: Wright v. Sumter County Board of Elections and Registration (M.D. Ga.) (11th Circuit)
North Dakota Redistricting: Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Howe
Texas Redistricting: Perez v. Perry (W.D. Tex); Texas v. United States (D.D.C.)
Texas Voter ID: Texas v. Holder (D.D.C)
South Carolina Voter ID: South Carolina v. United States (D.D.C.)
South Dakota Redistricting: Bone Shirt v. Hazeltine (D.S.D) (8th Circuit)
South Dakota Preclearance: Quiver v. Nelson (D.S.D.) (Supreme Court)
Malapportionment: Blackmoon v. Charles Mix County (D.S.D.)
Practice Areas
Texas House Redistricting Plan H283
Voting Rights
Election Administration
Redistricting
Political Law
Ballot Access
Campaign Finance
Language Assistance Programs
Civil Rights Law
Constitutional Law
Federal Courts
Appellate Litigation
Civil Litigation