S. Vance WILKINS, Speaker of the House of Delegates, et al.
v.
Douglas MacArthur WEST, et al.
Supreme Court of Virginia.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
November 1, 2002.
November 1, 2002.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Francis S. Ferguson, Deputy Atty. Gen.; E. Duncan Getchell, Jr (Jerry W. Kilgore, Atty. Gen.; William H. Hurd, Sol. Gen.; Judith Williams Jagdmann, Deputy Atty. Gen.; Maureen R. Matsen, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen.; A. Ann Berkebile, Asst. Atty. Gen.; Robert L. Hodges, Richmond; Stephen A. Katsurinis, Washington, DC; William H. Baxter, II; McGuier Woods, Richmond, on briefs), for appellants.
Ronald A. Klain (Jonathan D. Hacker, Washington, DC; Jeremy B. Bash, Alexandria; Marc E. Isserles, Washington, DC; William B. Hopkins, Jr., Roanoke; O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC; Martin, Hopkins and Lemon, Roanoke, on brief), for appellees.
Amicus Curiae: Lawyers for the Republic (Daniel F. Rinzel; Robert N. Hunter, Jr.; Redmon, Peyton & Braswell; Hunter, Johnson, Elam & Benjamin, on briefs), in support of appellants.
Amicus Curiae: Senator D. Nick Rerras (Jill Holtzman, on briefs), in support of appellants.
Amici Curiae: American Civil Liberties Union and American Civil Liberties Union of VA (Neil Bradley; Loughlin McDonald; Rebecca K. Glenberg, on brief), in support of appellees.
Amicus Curiae: The VA Legislative Black Caucus (R. Claire Guthrie, on brief), in support of appellees.
Amicus Curiae: Governor Mark R. Warner; Pamela S. Karlan (Jeffery K. Mitchell; Flippen, Densmore, Morse & Jessee, on brief), in support of appellees.
Amici Curiae: DKT Liberty Project; Center for Voting and Democracy, and Cameron Barron (David J. Ervin; Scott A. Schneider; Christy Hallam DeSanctis; Douglas S. Kantor; Iva C. Smith; Collier, Shannon & Scott, on brief), in support of appellees.
Present: All the Justices.
Supreme Court of Virginia.
Opinion by Justice ELIZABETH B. LACY.
Article II, § 6 of the Constitution of Virginia provides:
Members of the House of Representatives of the United States and members of the Senate and of the House of Delegates of the General Assembly shall be elected from electoral districts established by the General Assembly. Every electoral district shall be composed of contiguous and compact territory and shall be so constituted as to give, as nearly as is practicable...
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