"Fifty years from Bloody Sunday, our march is not yet finished."

— President Obama at the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Selma, Alabama, March 7, 2015

Welcome

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.

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

• 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.)

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Practice Areas

• 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