MOORE v. HARPER

No. 21-1271.

143 S.Ct. 2065 (2023)

Timothy K. MOORE, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, et al., Petitioners v. Rebecca HARPER, et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 27, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Swain Wood , First Assistant Attorney General, Ryan Y. Park , Solicitor General, Sarah G. Boyce **, James W. Doggett , Nicholas S. Brod , Deputy Solicitors General, South A. Moore , Zachary W. Ezor , James W. Whalen , Terence Steed , Mary Carla Babb , Raleigh, NC, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. , Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, DC, Dax Goldstein , States United Democracy Center, Washington, DC, for State Respondents.

David H. Thompson , Counsel of Record, Peter A. Patterson , Brian W. Barnes , John D. Ohlendorf , Megan M. Wold , Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, Washington, D.C., for Petitioners.

Sam Hirsch , Jessica Ring Amunson , Zachary C. Schauf , John R. Wester , Erik R. Zimmerman , Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A., J. Michael Luttig , Allison J. Riggs , Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Katherine B. Wellington , William E. Havemann , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Abha Khanna , Lalitha D. Madduri , Jacob D. Shelly , Graham W. White , Elias Law Group LLP, Elisabeth S. Theodore , R. Stanton Jones , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Neal Kumar Katyal ***, Jessica L. Ellsworth , Michael J. West , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, DC, Kaethik P. Reddy , Leonard R. Powell , Urja Mittal , Illyana A. Green , Carter Smith , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, David J. Bradford , Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, IL, Sophia L. Cai , Benjamin T. Hand , Jenner & Block LLP, San Francisco, CA, Stephen D. Feldman , Adam K. Doerr , Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A., Raleigh, NC, Burton Craige , Narendra K. Ghosh , Paul E. Smith , Patterson Harkavy LLP, Chapel Hill, NC, Hilary H. Klein , Christopher Shenton , Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC, Tom Boer , Olivia Molodanof , Hogan Lovells US LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Non-State Respondents.


Several groups of plaintiffs challenged North Carolina's congressional districting map as an impermissible partisan gerrymander. The plaintiffs brought claims under North Carolina's Constitution, which provides that "[a]ll elections shall be free...

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