BALDUS v. MEMBERS OF WISCONSIN GOV. ACCOUNTABILITY

Case Nos. 11-CV-562 JPS-DPW-RMD, 11-CV-1011 JPS-DPW-RMD.

862 F.Supp.2d 860 (2012)

Alvin BALDUS, Carlene Bechen, Elvira Bumpus, Ronald Biendseil, Leslie W. Davis, III, Brett Eckstein, Gloria Rogers, Richard Kresbach, Rochelle Moore, Amy Risseeuw, Judy Robson, Jeanne Sanchez-Bell, Cecelia Schliepp, Travis Thyssen, Cindy Barbera, Ron Boone, Vera Boone, Evanjelina Cleerman, Sheila Cochran, Maxine Hough, Clarence Johnson, Richard Lange, and Gladys Manzanet, Plaintiffs, Tammy Baldwin, Gwendolynne Moore and Ronald Kind, Intervenor-Plaintiffs, v. MEMBERS OF the WISCONSIN GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD, each only in his official capacity: Michael Brennan, David Deininger, Gerald Nichol, Thomas Cane, Thomas Barland, and Timothy Vocke, and Kevin Kennedy, Director and General Counsel for the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, Defendants, F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., Thomas E. Petri, Paul D. Ryan, Jr., Reid J. Ribble, and Sean P. Duffy, Intervenor-Defendants. Voces De La Frontera, Inc., Ramiro Vara, Olga Vara, Jose Perez, and Erica Ramirez, Plaintiffs, v. Members of the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, each only in his official capacity: Michael Brennan, David Deininger, Gerald Nichol, Thomas Cane, Thomas Barland, and Timothy Vocke, and Kevin Kennedy, Director and General Counsel for the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin.

April 11, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas M. Poland , Rebecca K. Mason , Godfrey & Kahn SC, Jacqueline E. Boynton , Law Offices of Jacqueline Boynton, Peter G. Earle , Law Offices of Peter Earle LLC, Milwaukee, WI, Dustin B. Brown , Brady C. Williamson , Godfrey & Kahn SC, Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs.

Daniel S. Lenz , P. Scott Hassett , Lawton & Cates SC, Madison, WI, for Intervenor-Plaintiffs.

Colleen E. Fielkow , Patrick J. Hodan , Daniel Kelly , Joseph W. Voiland , Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren SC, Milwaukee, WI, Maria S. Lazar , Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants.

Kellen C. Kasper , Thomas L. Shriner, Jr. , Foley & Lardner LLP, Milwaukee, WI, for Intervenor Defendant.


ORDER

After a two-day trial in this case, we issued an opinion upholding Wisconsin's new congressional and legislative districts in all but one respect. We concluded that, as drawn in Act 43, Assembly Districts 8 and 9 violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and had to be redrawn. Baldus v. Members of Wisconsin Government Accountability Bd., 849 F.Supp.2d 840, 859-60, 2012 WL 983685, *17 (E.D.Wis. Mar. 22...

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