CORMAN v. TORRES

Civil Action No. 1:18-CV-443.

287 F.Supp.3d 558 (2018)

Jacob CORMAN, in his official capacity as Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, Michael Folmer, in his official capacity as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Senate State Government Committee, Lou Barletta, Ryan Costello, Mike Kelly, Tom Marino, Scott Perry, Keith Rothfus, Lloyd Smucker, and Glenn Thompson, Plaintiffs v. Robert TORRES, in his official capacity as Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth, and Jonathan M. Marks, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the Bureau of Commissions, Elections, and Legislation, Defendants v. Carmen Febo San Miguel, James Solomon, John Greiner, John Capowski, Gretchen Brandt, Thomas Rentschler, Mary Elizabeth Lawn, Lisa Issacs, Don Lancaster, Jordi Comas, Robert Smith, William Marx, Richard Mantell, Priscilla McNulty, Thomas Ulrich, Robert McKinstry, Mark Lichty, and Lorraine Petrosky, Intervenor-Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania.

Signed March 19, 2018.

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

Brian S. Paszamant , Jason A. Snyderman , Pro Hac Vice, Michael D. Silberfarb , Pro Hac Vice, Brian S. Paszamant, Blank Rome LLP, Mark E. Seiberling , Matthew H. Haverstick , Paul G. Gagne , Shohin H. Vance , Kleinbard LLC, Philadelphia, PA, Jason B. Torchinsky , Pro Hac Vice, Shawn Sheehy , Pro Hac Vice, Phillip M. Gordon , Pro Hac Vice, Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky PLLC, Warrenton, VA, Joshua John Voss , Kleinbard LLC, Harrisburg, PA, for Plaintiffs.

Colleen E. Roh Sinzdak , Pro Hac Vice, Mitchell P. Reich , Pro Hac Vice, Neal Katyal , Pro Hac Vice, Reedy C. Swanson , Pro Hac Vice, Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP, Washington, DC, Thomas Paul Howell , Pennsylvania Governor's Office of General Counsel, Timothy E. Gates , Office of General Counsel, Department of State, Kathleen M. Kotula , Harrisburg, PA, Mark A. Aronchick , Michele D. Hangley , Hangley, Aronchick, Segal & Pudlin, Philadelphia, PA, Sara A. Solow , Pro Hac Vice, Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Thomas P. Schmidt , Pro Hac Vice, Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants.

Daniel F. Jacobson , Elisabeth S. Theodore , R. Stanton Jones , Sara K. Murphy , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC, Justin G. Weber , Thomas B. Schmidt, III , Pepper Hamilton LLP, Harrisburg, PA, Mary M. McKenzie , Pro Hac Vice, Benjamin D. Geffen , Pro Hac Vice, Michael Churchill , Pro Hac Vice, The Public Interest Law Center, Philadelphia, PA, Andrew D. Bergman , Pro Hac Vice, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Houston, TX, for Intervenor-Defendants.

BEFORE: Kent A. Jordan, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Christopher C. Conner, Chief District Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; Jerome B. Simandle, District Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

I. Introduction

This case has its genesis in a hard-fought congressional redistricting battle waged in state and federal courts across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The various antecedent lawsuits engaged Republican members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Democratic elected and appointed officials...

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