WHITFORD v. NICHOL

15-cv-421-bbc.

180 F.Supp.3d 583 (2016)

William WHITFORD, Roger Anclam, Emily Bunting, Mary Lynne Donohue, Helen Harris, Wayne Jensen, Wendy Sue Johnson, Janet Mitchell, Allison Seaton, James Seaton, Jerome Wallace and Donald Winter, Plaintiffs, v. Gerald C. NICHOL, Thomas Barland, John Franke, Harold V. Froehlich, Kevin J. Kennedy, Elsa Lamelas and Timothy Vocke, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

Signed April 7, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas Odysseas Stephanopoulos , University of Chicago Law School, Ruth Merewyn Greenwood , Annabelle Elizabeth Harless , Michele Louise Odorizzi , Mayer Brown LLP, Paul Strauss , Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Chicago, IL, Peter Guyon Earle , Law Office of Peter Earle, LLC, Milwaukee, WI, Danielle Marie Lang , J. Gerald Hebert , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Douglas Maynard Poland , Rathje & Woodward, LLC, Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs.

Brian P. Keenan , Anthony David Russomanno , Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants.


OPINION and ORDER

The question in this case is whether Wisconsin Act 43 — the 2012 districting plan for the Wisconsin Assembly — is an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Plaintiffs are Wisconsin residents and Democratic voters who allege that the plan is "one of the worst partisan gerrymanders...

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