MTR OF HARKENRIDER v. HOCHUL

No. 60.

38 N.Y.3d 494 (2022)

197 N.E.3d 437

176 N.Y.S.3d 157

2022 NY Slip Op 02833

In the Matter of TIM HARKENRIDER et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. KATHY HOCHUL, as Governor, et al., Appellants-Respondents, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided April 27, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillips Lytle LLP, Buffalo ( Craig R. Bucki , Steven B. Salcedo and Rebecca A. Valentine of counsel), and Graubard Miller, New York City ( C. Daniel Chill and Elaine Reich of counsel), for Carl Heastie, appellant-respondent.

Cuti Hecker Wang LLP, New York City ( Eric Hecker , John Cuti , Alex Goldenberg , Alice Reiter and Daniel Mullkoff of counsel), for Andrea Stewart-Cousins, appellant-respondent.

Letitia James , Attorney General, Albany ( Jeffrey W. Lang and Jennifer L. Clark of counsel), for Kathy Hochul and another, appellants-respondents.

Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, New York City ( Misha Tseytlin of counsel), for respondents-appellants.

Campaign Legal Center, Washington, D.C. ( Paul M. Smith , Mark P. Gaber and Simone T. Leeper of counsel), and Chicago, Illinois ( Annabelle E. Harless of counsel), for Campaign Legal Center and another, amici curiae.

Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, New York City ( James M. McGuire , Daniel M. Sullivan and Gregory J. Dubinsky of counsel), for League of Women Voters of New York State, amicus curiae.

John Ciampoli , Massapequa, for Thomas F. O'Mara and others, amici curiae.

Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP, New York City ( Matthew D. Brinckerhoff and Andrew G. Celli of counsel), and Elias Law Group LLP, Washington, D.C. ( Aria C. Branch , Haley K. Costello Essig , Shanna M. Ruelbach , Maya M. Sequeira , Graham W. White , Christina A. Ford and Aaron M. Mukerjee of counsel), for Jamaal Bowman and others, amici curiae.


OPINION OF THE COURT

In 2014, the people of the State of New York amended the State Constitution to adopt historic reforms of the redistricting process by requiring, in a carefully structured process, the creation of electoral maps by an Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) and by declaring unconstitutional certain...

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