Vallejos v Commissioner of Registration
The hearing on Vallejos' case began on 22 August 2011, and stretched out until the 24th. David Pannick represented the respondent, the Commissioner of Registration. During the hearing, the courtroom was packed to overflowing with lawyers, journalists, and other members of the public, who took up not just the seats in the public gallery, but also those for defendants and jury members (the latter being unoccupied as the case at hand was not a jury trial but a judicial review). Another hundred people watched the proceedings on a large-screen television in the lobby, while protestors both supporting and opposing Vallejos' case faced off outside the building without incident.
Joseph N. Langan
From his experience on the Board of Registrars, Gonzales later testified for the plaintiffs in a court case, "Davis et al. v. Schnell et al." It was brought in 1948 by ten Mobile County African-American residents against the Board of Registrars for discrimination under the amendment. A three-judge panel in federal district court declared the Boswell Amendment unconstitutional, as it violated the Fifteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. This decision was upheld in appeals up to the US Supreme Court.