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SEC'Y OF BYRD v. BLACK VOTERS MATTER CAP.

No. 1D2023-2252.

375 So.3d 335 (2023)

SECRETARY OF STATE BYRD, the Florida House of Representatives, and the Florida Senate, Appellants, v. BLACK VOTERS MATTER CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE, INC., Equal Ground Education Fund, Inc., League of Women Voters of Florida Education Fund, Inc., Florida Rising Together, Pastor Reginald Gundy, Sylvia Young, Phyllis Wiley, Andrea Hershorin, Anaydia Connolly, Leela Fuentes, Brandon P. Nelson, Kaitlyn Yarrows, Cynthia Lippert, Kisha Linebaugh, Nina Wolfson, Beatriz Alonzo, Gonzalo Alfredo Pedroso, and Marvin Hudson, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 1, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mohammad O. Jazil , Michael Beato , Ed Wenger , and Gary V. Perko of Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, PLLC, Tallahassee; and Bradley R. McVay , Joseph S. Van de Bogart , and Ashley E. Davis , Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, for Appellant Secretary of State Byrd.

Andy Bardos of GrayRobinson, P.A., Tallahassee, for Florida House Appellants.

Daniel E. Nordby , George N. Meros, Jr. , and Tara R. Price of Shutts & Bowen LLP, Tallahassee; and Carlos Rey and Kyle Gray , Florida Senate, Tallahassee, for Florida Senate Appellants.

Henry C. Whitaker , Solicitor General, Tallahassee; Jeffrey Paul DeSousa and Daniel W. Bell , Chief Deputy Solicitors General, Tallahassee; David M. Costello , Deputy Solicitor General, Tallahassee; and Bilal Ahmed Faruqui , Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Attorney General Ashley Moody.

Frederick S. Wermuth , Quinn B. Ritter , and Thomas A. Zehnder of King, Blackwell, Zehnder & Wermuth, P.A., Orlando; and Christina A. Ford and Jyoti Jasrasaria of Elias Law Group LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.

En Banc

On review is a declaratory judgment. In it, the trial court determined that Chapter 2022-265, Laws of Florida1—setting out the legal boundaries of the State's congressional districts based on the post-2020 census federal reapportionment—conflicts with Florida's congressional...

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