IN RE SENATE JOINT RES. OF LEGIS. APPORTION. 2-B

No. SC12-460.

89 So.3d 872 (2012)

In re SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION OF LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT 2-B.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 27, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raoul G. Cantero, III , Jason N. Zakia of White and Case, LLP, Miami, FL, Andy Bardos , Special Counsel to the President, The Florida Senate, Peter M. Dunbar and Cynthia S. Tunnicliff of Pennington, Moore, Bell, and Dunbar, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for the Senate as proponents.

Honorable R. Dean Cannon, Jr. , Speaker of the House, Tallahassee, FL, for The House of Representatives.

Jon L. Mills , Karen C. Dyer , and Elan M. Nehleber of Boies, Schiller and Flexner, LLP, Orlando, FL, Joseph W. Hatchett of Akerman Senterfitt, Tallahassee, FL, Marc E. Elias , Kevin J. Hamilton , John Devaney , and Abha Khanna of Perkins Cole, LLP, Washington, DC, The Florida Democratic Party as opponents.

Paul M. Smith , Michael B. DeSanctis , Jessica Ruing Amunson , and Kristen M. Rogers of Jenner and Block, LLP, Washington, D.C., Ronald G. Meyer of Meyer, Brooks, Demma, and Blohm, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, J. Gerald Hebert , Alexandria, VA, for The League of Women Voters of Florida, National Council of La Raza, and Common Cause as opponents.

Allison J. Riggs and Anita S. Earls of Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC, Charles G. Burr of Burr and Smith, LLP, Tampa, FL, and Victor L. Goode and Dorcas R. Gilmore , NAACP, Baltimore, MD, for Florida State Conference of NAACP Branches as opponents.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, and Timothy D. Osterhaus , Deputy Solicitor General, Florida, FL; and Daniel E. Nordby , General Counsel and Ashley E. Davis , Assistant General Counsel, Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, FL, Other Interested Parties.


PER CURIAM.

In this second phase of Florida's decennial legislative apportionment process, the Court's constitutional obligation is to determine the validity of the apportionment plan set forth in Senate Joint Resolution 2-B (SJR 2-B). In that joint resolution, the Legislature adopted a revised plan apportioning Florida's Senate districts after this Court declared the original Senate apportionment plan to be constitutionally...

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