After a win in a landmark North Carolina voting rights case Monday, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer is now facing Washington, D.C.-based litigation boutique Cooper & Kirk on appeal. In addition to hoping to cement its recent victory in restoring voting rights to tens of thousands of disenfranchised North Carolinians, the firm is currently researching whether its winning formula can be replicated in other states across the South.

On Tuesday, a lawyer from Cooper & Kirk and two lawyers from Phelps Dunbar filed notices to appear in Community Success Initiative v. Moore. That same day, lawyers for the defense filed a notice of appeal and a notice of a stay pending appeal, on behalf of North Carolina Legislature Republicans, who were named as co-defendants in the original case in the North Carolina Superior Court.

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