Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether this Court's voting rights jurisprudence permits the government to empower a private association (here, an agricultural cooperative) to cast all its members' votes as a bloc on the theory that such voting schemes are subject to rational-basis review and the government may 'give greater influence to some voters as long as the apportionment of power is not 'wholly irrelevant' to the [government's] objectives'
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether this Court’s voting rights jurisprudence permits the government to empower a private association (here, an agricultural cooperative) to cast all its members’ votes as a bloc on the theory that such voting schemes are subject to rational-basis review and the government may “give greater influence to some voters as long as the apportionment of power is not ‘wholly irrelevant’ to the [government’s] objectives.”
2022-04-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/12/2022.
2022-04-19
Reply of petitioners Lion Raisins, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed)
2022-04-04
Brief of respondent Karen Ross, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture in opposition filed.
2022-02-25
Brief amici curiae of Cato Institute, et al. filed.
2022-02-14
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 4, 2022.
2022-02-11
Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 3, 2022 to April 4, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
2022-01-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 3, 2022)
2021-11-05
Application (21A136) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until January 28, 2022.
2021-11-02
Application (21A136) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 30, 2021 to January 28, 2022, submitted to Justice Kagan.