racial-gerrymandering

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A914 Nicole Malliotakis, et al. v. Michael Williams, et al. New York 2026-02-13 Application congressional-redistricting due-process elections-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-gerrymandering Question not identified.
25-898 William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias Colorado 2026-02-04 Pending district-map equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2 standing voting-rights-act Respondents challenged Washington state legislative district 15 ("LD-15"), alleging it diluted Hispanic votes under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act…
25-918 Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending district-reconfiguration equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2-liability standing voting-rights-act 1. Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to cha…
25-901 Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending appellate-review equal-protection judicial-remedy legislative-districts mootness racial-gerrymandering Whether a plaintiff's Equal Protection Clause racial gerrymandering claim is rendered moot when the challenged legislative district is replaced in a d…
25A839 David Tangipa, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2026-01-22 Application Amici (5) election-law fifteenth-amendment minority-representation racial-gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights-act Question not identified.
25-577 Chaldean Coalition, Inc. v. San Diego County Independent Redistricting Commission, et al. California 2025-11-14 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) district-design equal-protection fourteenth-amendment population-deviation racial-gerrymandering redistricting During the summer of 2020, the term "BIPOC"— "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color"—emerged as the preferred moniker for the theory that all non-wh…
25-243 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-03 Pending constitutional-interpretation equal-protection legislative-redistricting majority-minority-district racial-gerrymandering voting-rights-act Does §2 of the Voting Rights Act require Alabama to create a second majority-minority district despite potential constitutional concerns?
25A109 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Bobby Singleton, et al. Alabama 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act Whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state legislature from drawing congressional districts that allegedly discriminate against minority vo…
25A110 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Evan Milligan, et al. Alabama 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act Whether Alabama's 2023 congressional redistricting plan violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause by allegedly discr…
23-484 Jose Trevino, et al. v. Susan Soto Palmer, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) fourteenth-amendment hispanic-voting-power judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering section-2 section-2-claim three-judge-panel voting-rights-act May a single-judge district court's ruling on a Section 2 claim divest a 3-judge panel of jurisdiction to decide a Fourteenth Amendment claim?
22-47 Kerry Benninghoff, Individually and as Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives v. 2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-07-18 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights district-drawing equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights-act Whether districts drawn for transparently racial reasons, without a VRA-compliance justification, satisfy the Fourteenth Amendment merely because the …
21-1596 Kyle Ardoin, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. v. Press Robinson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Amici (3) civil-rights gingles-preconditions preliminary-injunction racial-gerrymandering redistricting section-2 voting-rights Whether the district court erred in its application of the Gingles preconditions and in ordering a racial gerrymander as a remedy
21-1087 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied Amici (1) congressional-districts equal-protection gerrymandering minority-representation preliminary-injunction racial-gerrymandering redistricting section-2 standing voting-rights-act whether-alabama's-2021-congressional-map-violates-the-voting-rights-act
19-8232 William Lynn Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-mapping due-process equal-protection jury-selection minority-representation racial-discrimination racial-gerrymandering standing voting-rights Whether the Petitioner is another example of the deprivation of the Equal Protection Clause which forbids the State's to exclude black persons from se…
18-1257 Peter Lee, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, California Ninth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied civil-rights district-boundaries hunt-v-cromartie legislative-privilege racial-gerrymandering redistricting shaw-claim shaw-v-reno summary-judgment united-states-v-gillock village-of-arlington-heights-v-metropolitan-housin Whether legislators drew boundaries with a predominant racial intent