MATTER OF 2012 LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTING

Misc. Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5, September Term, 2012.

80 A.3d 1073 (2013)

436 Md. 121

In the Matter of 2012 LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTING of the State.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 10, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Eric Bouchat , Woodbine, MD, for Appellant.

Dan Friedman , Asst. Atty. Gen., Legislative Services Building, Annapolis, MD ( Douglas F. Gansler , Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, MD and Kathryn M. Rowe and Sandra Benson Brantley , Assistant Attorneys General, Legislative Services Building, Annapolis, MD; Steven M. Sullivan , Matthew J. Fader , and Amanda S. Conn , Assistant Attorneys General, Baltimore, MD), for Appellee.

Argued before BARBERA, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, McDONALD and BELL, JJ.


BELL, C.J., (Retired).

The right to formal political representation is fundamental to our state and national democracies. In the second year following each Federal decennial census, the Maryland Constitution provides that the Governor and State Legislature shall reapportion the State's legislative representation consistent with the State's current demographics. To protect the Federal and State legal rights that may be affected by this process, the Maryland Constitution...

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