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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF CHI. v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 13-2977.

757 F.3d 722 (2014)

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF CHICAGO, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 9, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean Morales-Doyle, Thomas H. Geoghegan, Michael P. Persoon, Despres, Schwartz & Geoghegan, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Kerrie Maloney Laytin, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Richard J. Prendergast, Richard J. Prendergast, Ltd., Benna Ruth Solomon, City of Chicago Law Department, Michael James Kasper, Fletcher Topol & O'Brien Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before WOOD, Chief Judge, and KANNE and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

In 2012, Chicago's City Council voted on and adopted a new ward map to take effect in 2015. The League of Women Voters of Chicago and fourteen Chicago citizens (collectively "the League") filed this action challenging the redistricting. The League alleged that the 2015 map failed to adhere to equal-population principles established under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The League also asserted that the City prematurely...

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