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VESILIND v. VIRGINIA STATE BD. OF ELECTIONS

Record No. 170697.

813 S.E.2d 739 (2018)

Rima Ford VESILIND, et al. v. VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

May 31, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wyatt B. Durrette, Jr. ( Christine A. Williams ; Durrette, Arkema & Gill, on briefs), Richmond, for appellants.

Toby J. Heytens , Solicitor General; ( Mark R. Herring , Attorney General; Trevor S. Cox , Senior Appellate Counsel; Matthew R. McGuire , Deputy Solicitor General; Cynthia E. Hudson , Chief Deputy Attorney General; John W. Daniel, II , Deputy Attorney General; Heather Hays Lockerman , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Anna T. Birkenheier , Assistant Attorney General; Joshua D. Heslinga , Assistant Attorney General, on brief), for appellees Virginia State Board of Elections, James B. Alcorn, Clara Belle Wheeler, Singleton B. McAllister, Virginia Department of Elections, and Edgardo Cortes.

Richard B. Raile ( Katherine L. McKnight ; E. Mark Braden ; Baker & Hostetler, on brief), for appellees Virginia House of Delegates and the Hon. M. Kirkland Cox, Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, substituted in place of the Hon. William J. Howell, former Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates.

Amici Curiae: Former Virginia Attorneys General Ken Cuccinelli , Mary Sue Terry , and Stephen Rosenthal ( Rachel Elsby ; G. Michael Parsons, Jr. ; Corey W. Roush ; Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, on briefs), in support of appellants.

Amid Curiae: Professors A.E. Dick Howard, Mark E. Rush , Rebecca Green , and Carl W. Tobias ( Lucius B. Lau ; Dana Foster ; Ting-Ting Kao ; White & Case, on briefs), in support of appellants.

Amicus Curiae: League of Women Voters of Virginia ( Ruth Greenwood ; Ryan C. Morris ; Tacy F. Flint ; Campaign Legal Center; Sidley Austin , on brief), in support of appellants.

PRESENT: All the Justices.

In this appeal, we consider whether the circuit court erred in confirming the constitutional validity of Virginia General Assembly legislative districts that were allegedly drawn in violation of the compactness requirement expressed in Article II, § 6 of the Constitution of Virginia.

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