LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF FLA. v. DETZNER

No. SC14-1905.

172 So.3d 363 (2015)

The LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF FLORIDA, etc., et al., Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Ken DETZNER, et al., Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 9, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Stewart Mills , Andrew David Manko , and Courtney Rebecca Brewer of The Mills Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, FL; David B. King , Thomas Alan Zehnder , Frederick Stanton Wermuth , and Vincent Falcone, III of King, Blackwell, Zehnder & Wermuth, P.A., Orlando, FL; Adam Michael Schachter and Gerald Edward Greenberg of Gelber Schachter & Greenberg, P.A., Miami, FL; Mark Herron and Robert J. Telfer, III of Messer Caparello, P.A., Tallahassee, FL; and John M. Devaney and Marc Erik Elias of Perkins Coie LLP, WA, District of Columbia; for Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

J. Andrew Atkinson , General Counsel, Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, FL; Raoul G. Cantero, III , Jason Nelson Zakia , and Jesse Luke Green of White & Case LLP, Miami, FL; George T. Levesque , General Counsel, The Florida Senate, Tallahassee, FL; Allison J. Riggs and George Edward Eppsteiner , Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC; Nancy Gbana Abudu , American Civil Liberties Union of Florida Foundation, Miami, FL; Matthew Joseph Carson , General Counsel, The Florida House of Representatives, Tallahassee, FL; and Charles Talley Wells of Gray Robinson P.A., Orlando, FL, and Jason Lawrence Unger , Andre Velosy Bardos , and George N. Meros, Jr. of Gray Robinson, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Martha Angela Pardo , Associate Counsel, Latino Justice PRLDEF, Orlando, FL, for Amici Curiae Latino Justice PRLDEF, Florida New Majority, and Mi Familia Vota.


In this appeal involving legal issues of first impression, we review a trial court's finding that the 2012 "redistricting process" and the "resulting map" apportioning Florida's twenty-seven congressional districts were "taint[ed]" by unconstitutional intent to favor the Republican Party and incumbent lawmakers.1<...

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