WHITFORD v. GILL

15-cv-421-bbc.

218 F.Supp.3d 837 (2016)

William WHITFORD, Roger Anclaim, Emily Bunting, Mary Lunne Donohue, Helen Harris, Wayne Jensen, Wendy Sue Johnson, Janet Mitchell, Allison Seaton, James Seaton, Jerome Wallace and Donald Winter, Plaintiffs, v. Beverly R. GILL, Julie M. Glancey, Ann S. Jacobs, Steve King, Don Millis, and Mark L. Thomsen, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

Signed November 21, 2016.

Editors Note
Applicable Law: 42 U.S.C. § 1983
Cause: 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Civil Rights Act
Nature of Suit: 400 State Reapportionment
Source: PACER


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas Odysseas Stephanopoulos, University of Chicago Law School, Ruth Merewyn Greenwood, Annabelle Elizabeth Harless, Campaign Legal Center, 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, J. Gerald Hebert, U.S. Department of Justice, Danielle Marie Lang, 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.

Before RIPPLE, Circuit Judge, and CRABB and GRIESBACH, District Judges.


OPINION and ORDER

OPINION

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Background...843

A. Reapportionment in Wisconsin...844

B. Drafting of Act 43...846

C. Prior Court Challenges to Act 43...853

II. Procedural History...854

A. Allegations of the Complaint...854

B. Motion...

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