NDRN joined the American Diabetes Association and several other disability rights organizations in an amicus filed on October 19, 2020, in Merrill v. People First of Alabama, in support of neither side. The case was the state’s emergency motion in the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of the decision of the Eleventh Circuit which declined to stay a district court order which allowed Alabama counties which chose to do so, to provide curbside voting due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On October 21, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the state’s motion for a stay preventing any Alabama County that chose to, from providing curbside voting. Justice Sotomayor joined by Justice Breyer & Kagan dissented.
