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COMMON CAUSE v. RUCHO

No. 1:16-CV-1026, No. 1:16-CV-1164.

279 F.Supp.3d 587 (2018)

COMMON CAUSE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Robert A. RUCHO, in his official capacity as Chairman of the North Carolina Senate Redistricting Committee for the 2016 Extra Session and Co-Chairman of the Joint Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting, et al., Defendants. League of Women Voters of North Carolina, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Robert A. Rucho, in his official capacity as Chairman of the North Carolina Senate Redistricting Committee for the 2016 Extra Session and Co-Chairman of the Joint Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. North Carolina.

Filed January 9, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin W. Thorpe , Emmet J. Bondurant , Jason J. Carter , Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Caroline P. Mackie, Steven B. Epstein , Edwin M. Speas, Jr. , Poyner Spruill, LLP, Raleigh, NC, Gregory L. Diskant , Peter A. Nelson , Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, New York, NY, Allison Jean Riggs , Emily E. Seawell , Anita S. Earls , Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC, Anna E. Bodi , Danielle M. Lang , J. Gerald Hebert , Molly Danahy , Paul M. Smith , Campaign Legal Center, Washington, DC, Annabelle E. Harless , Ruth M. Greenwood , Campaign Legal Center, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos , University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs.

Alexander McClure Peters , James Bernier, Jr. , N.C. Department of Justice, Michael Douglas McKnight , Phillip John Strach , Thomas A. Farr , Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Raleigh, NC, for Defendants.

Before WYNN, Circuit Judge, and OSTEEN, JR., District Judge, and BRITT, Senior District Judge.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

In these consolidated cases, two groups of Plaintiffs allege that North Carolina's 2016 Congressional Redistricting Plan (the "2016 Plan") constitutes a partisan gerrymander in violation of the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and Article...

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