COMMON CAUSE v. RUCHO

Nos. 1:16-CV-1026, 1:16-CV-1164.

240 F.Supp.3d 376 (2017)

COMMON CAUSE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Robert A. RUCHO, in his official capacity as Chairman of the North Carolina Senate Redistricting Committee for the 2016 Extra Session and Co-Chairman of the Joint Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting, et al., Defendants. League of Women Voters of North Carolina, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Robert A. Rucho, in his official capacity as Chairman of the North Carolina Senate Redistricting Committee for the 2016 Extra Session and Co-Chairman of the Joint Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. North Carolina.

Signed March 3, 2017.

Editors Note
Applicable Law: 28 U.S.C. § 1983
Cause: 28 U.S.C. § 1983 Civil Rights
Nature of Suit: 400 State Reapportionment
Source: PACER


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allison Jean Riggs , Anita S. Earls , Emily E. Seawell , Durham, NC, Anna E. Bodi , Danielle M. Lang , J. Gerald Hebert , Molly Danahy , Paul M. Smith , Washington, DC, Annabelle E. Harless , Ruth M. Greenwood , Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos , University Of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs League of Women Voters of North Carolina, et al.

Benjamin W. Thorpe , Emmet J. Bondurant , Jason J. Carter , Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Caroline P. Mackie , Steven B. Epstein , Edwin M. Speas, Jr. , Poyner Spruill, LLP, Raleigh, NC, Gregory L. Diskant , Peter A. Nelson , Susan R. Millenky , Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs Common Cause, et al.

Alexander McClure Peters , James Bernier, Jr. , N.C. Department of Justice, Michael Douglas McKnight , Phillip John Strach , Thomas A. Farr , Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Raleigh, NC, for Defendants.

Before WYNN, Circuit Judge, and OSTEEN, Chief District Judge, and BRITT, Senior District Judge.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

In these consolidated cases, two groups of Plaintiffs1 allege that North Carolina's 2016 Congressional Redistricting Plan (the "Plan") constitutes an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander in violation of the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth...

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