Muntaqim v. Coombe

Muntaqim v. Coombe
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]