On November 7, the Alabama Secretary of State appealed Greater Birmingham Ministries v Merrill, 22-13708, to the Eleventh Circuit. This is the lawsuit over access to certain Alabama voter registration records. The U.S. District Court had ruled against the Secretary of State. The plaintiff, a voting rights group, had asked for lists of persons removed from the registration rolls because of a felony conviction, lists of persons whose voter registration application was rejected because of an earlier felony conviction, and lists of people purged from the rolls immediately after the 2020 election.