Press ROBINSON; Edgar Cage; Dorothy Nairne; Edwin Rene Soule; Alice Washington; Clee Earnest Lowe; Davante Lewis; Martha Davis; Ambrose Sims; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Louisiana State Conference, also known as NAACP; Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Kyle ARDOIN, in his official capacity as Secretary of State for Louisiana, Defendant-Appellant.
Clay Schexnayder; Patrick Page Cortez; Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, Intervenor Defendants-Appellants.
Edward Galmon, Sr.; Ciara Hart; Norris Henderson; Tramelle Howard, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Kyle Ardoin, in his official capacity as Secretary of State for Louisiana, Defendant-Appellant.
Clay Schexnayder; Patrick Page Cortez; Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, Movants-Appellants.
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FILED June 12, 2022.
FILED June 12, 2022.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Leah Camille Aden, Esq. , Kathryn C. Sadasivan , NAACP, Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Incorporated, New York, NY, John Nelson Adcock , New Orleans, LA, Adam Savitt , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Press Robinson, Edgar Cage, Dorothy Nairne, Edwin Rene Soule, Alice Washington, Clee Earnest Lowe, Davante Lewis, Martha Davis, Ambrose Sims, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Louisiana State Conference, and Power Coalition for Equity and Justice.
Jennifer Wise Moroux , Walters Papillion Cullens Thomas, L.L.C., Baton Rouge, LA, Olivia Nicole Sedwick , Elias Law Group, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Edward Galmon, Sr., Ciara Hart, Norris Henderson, and Tramelle Howard.
Alyssa Riggins , Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., Raleigh, NC, John Carroll Walsh , Shows, Cali & Walsh, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant Appellant.
Elizabeth Baker Murrill, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Morgan Brungard , Office of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, Angelique Duhon Freel, Esq. , Jeffrey M. Wale, Esq. , Assistant Attorneys General, Louisiana Department of Justice, Baton Rouge, LA, Phillip Michael Gordon , Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, P.L.L.C., Haymarket, VA, Shae Gary McPhee, Jr. , Assistant Solicitor General, Louisiana Department, of Justice, Office of the Solicitor General, New Orleans, LA, Jason Brett Torchinsky , Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Intervenor Defendant-Appellant State of Louisiana-Attorney General Jeff Landry.
Edmund Gerard LaCour, Jr. , Office of the Attorney General for the State of Alabama, Montgomery, AL, for Amici Curiae State of Alabama, State of Arkansas, State of Georgia, State of Indiana, State of Kentucky, State of Mississippi, State of Missouri, State of Montana, State of Oklahoma, State of South Carolina, State of Texas, and State of Utah.
Before Smith, Higginson, and Willett, Circuit Judges.
Per Curiam:
Before the court are three emergency motions to stay, pending appeal, an order of the district court that requires the Louisiana Legislature to enact a new congressional map with a second black-majority district. Although we must acknowledge that this appeal's exigency has left us little time to review the record, we conclude that, though the...
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