HARPER v. HALL

No. 413P21.

865 S.E.2d 301 (2021)

Rebecca HARPER; Amy Clare Oseroff; Donald Rumph; John Anthony Balla; Richard R. Crews; Lily Nicole Quick; Gettyss Cohen, Jr.; Shawn Rush; Jackson Thomas Dunn, Jr.; Mark S. Peters; Kathleen Barnes; Virginia Walters Brien; and David Dwight Brown, Plaintiffs, v. Representative Destin HALL, in his official capacity as Chair of the House Standing Committee on Re districting; Senator Warren Daniel, in his official capacity as Co-Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Redistricting and Elections; Sena T or Ralph Hise, in his official capacity as Co-Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Redistricting and Elections; Senator Paul Newton, in his official capacity as Co-Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Redistricting and Elections; Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, Timothy K. Moore; President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate, Philip E. Berger; the North Carolina State Board of Elections; and Damon Circosta, in his official capacity, Defendants. North Carolina League of Conservation Voters, Inc.; Henry M. Michaux, Jr.; Dandrielle Lewis; Timothy Chartier; Talia Fernos; Katherine Newhall; R. Jason Parsley; Edna Scott; Roberta Scott; Yvette Roberts; Jereann King Johnson; Reverend Reginald Wells; Yarbrough Williams, Jr.; Reverend Deloris L. Jerman; Viola Ryals Figueroa; and Cosmos George, Plaintiffs, v. Representative Destin Hall, in his official capacity as Chair of the House Standing Committee on Re districting; Senator Warren Daniel, in his official capacity as Co-Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Redistricting and Elections; Senator Ralph E. Hise, Jr., in his of ficial capacity as Co-Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Redistricting and Elections; Senator Paul Newton, in his official capacity as Co-Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Redistricting and Elections; Representative Timothy K. Moore, in his official capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives; Senator Philip E. Berger, in his official capacity as President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate; The State of North Carolina; the North Carolina State Board of Elections; Damon Circosta, in his official capacity as Chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Elections; Stella Anderson, in her official capacity as Secretary of the North Carolina State Board of Elections; Jeff Carmon III, in his official capacity as Member of the North Carolina State Board of Elections; Stacy Eggers IV, in his official capacity as Member of the North Carolina State Board of Elections; Tommy Tucker, in his official capacity as Member of the North Carolina State Board of Elections; and Karen Brinson Bell, in her official capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 8, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Narendra K. Ghosh , Attorney at Law, Chapel Hill, For Harper, Rebecca, et al.

Terence Steed , Assistant Attorney General, For State Board of Elections, et al.

Amar Majmundar , Senior Deputy Attorney General, For State Board of Elections, et al.

Stephanie A. Brennan , Special Deputy Attorney General, For State Board of Elections, et al.

Burton Craige , Attorney at Law, Raleigh, For Harper, Rebecca. et al.

Paul E. Smith , Attorney at Law, Chapel Hill, For Harper, Rebecca, et al.

Phillip J. Strach , Attorney at Law, Raleigh, For Hall, Destin, et al.

Alyssa Riggins , Attorney at Law, Raleigh, For Hall, Destin, et al.

John E. Branch, III , Attorney at Law, Raleigh, For Hall, Destin, et al.

Thomas A. Farr , Attorney at law, Raleigh, For Hall, Destin, et al.

Stephen D. Feldman , Attorney at Law, Raleigh, For N.C. League of Conservation Voters, Inc., et al.

Adam K. Doerr , Attorney at Law, Charlotte, For N.C. League of Conservation Voters, Inc., et al.

Erik R. Zimmerman , Attorney at Law, Chapel Hill, For N.C. League of Conservation Voters, Inc., et al.

Ryan Y. Park , Solicitor General, For Gov. Cooper and AG Stein,

James W. Doggett , Deputy Solicitor General, For Gov. Cooper and AG Stein.

Zachary W. Ezor , Solicitor General Fellow, For Gov. Cooper and AG Stein.

Kellie Z. Myers , Trial Court Administrator.


ORDER

Plaintiffs' Petitions for Discretionary Review Prior to Determination by the Court of Appeals, Motion to Suspend Appellate Rules to Expedite a Decision, and Motion to Suspend Appellate Rules and Expedite Schedule, filed in these consolidated cases on 6 December 2021 are allowed as follows:

In light of the great public interest in the subject matter of these cases, the importance of the issues to the constitutional jurisprudence of this State, and the...

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