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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…
25A556 La Union del Pueblo Entero, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-13 Application equal-protection fifth-circuit redistricting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights Whether the Voting Rights Act and Equal Protection Clause prohibit Texas from enacting voter assistance restrictions that disproportionately burden mi…
24-5257 Miguel Aguilar, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2024-08-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-apportionment minority-representation redistricting voting-rights Whether a state's legislative apportionment scheme violates constitutional equal protection principles by potentially diluting minority voting power
23A1142 Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. v. Phillip Callais, et al. Louisiana 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete congressional-map constitutional-challenge equal-protection racial-gerrymander redistricting voting-rights Whether Louisiana's congressional redistricting plan violates the Equal Protection Clause by constituting an unconstitutional racial gerrymander
23A1120 Malcolm Johnson, et al. v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-challenge first-amendment legislative-representation redistricting writ Whether the First Amendment protects the right of state legislators to challenge redistricting plans that allegedly infringe on legislative representa…
23A994 Press Robinson, et al. v. Phillip Callais, et al. Louisiana 2024-05-08 Presumed Complete Amici (1) congressional-districts majority-minority racial-vote-dilution redistricting section-2 voting-rights-act Whether the Voting Rights Act requires a state legislature to draw a congressional district map with a second majority-minority district when the stat…
23A992 David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge county-commission equal-protection redistricting representation voting-rights Whether a county board of commissioners' voting procedures and redistricting decisions violate constitutional protections of equal representation and …
23A929 Arkansas State Conference NAACP, et al. v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete political-process private-plaintiffs racial-discrimination redistricting section-2 voting-rights-act Whether private citizens can sue to challenge political processes under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act when alleging unequal racial access to the …
23A851 Thomas C. Alexander, in His Official Capacity as President of the South Carolina Senate, et al. v. The South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, et al. South Carolina 2024-03-20 Presumed Complete congressional-districts elections-clause judicial-intervention legislative-authority redistricting state-supreme-court Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court's redistricting decision improperly interfered with the state legislature's authority to draw congressional d…
23A764 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-21 Presumed Complete certiorari eleventh-circuit mandate redistricting supreme-court-precedent voting-rights Whether the Eleventh Circuit's panel opinion conflicts with the Supreme Court's precedents in Thornburg v. Gingles and Allen v. Milligan regarding vot…
23A749 Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, et al. v. Donald Agee, Jr., et al. Michigan 2024-02-14 Presumed Complete interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-statement legislative-maps redistricting remedial-process special-master Whether the district court's expedited redistricting remedial order impermissibly infringes on the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commiss…
23-500 James Gimenez v. Franklin County, Washington, et al. Washington 2023-11-14 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) at-large-elections constitutional-law constitutional-scrutiny election-systems equal-protection gerrymandering racial-polarization redistricting voting-rights Whether the Washington Voting Rights Act is subject to strict scrutiny
23-220 Michael Parietti v. Ed Day, et al. New York 2023-09-08 Denied Relisted (2) bias-standard first-amendment free-speech judicial-disqualification probability-of-bias public-hearing public-hearings redistricting speech-rights Did the New York Courts use the wrong standard for judicial disqualification?
22-1088 John T. Morris v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response Waived accumulated-knowledge article-1-section-2 constitutional-interpretation election-integrity first-amendment frequent-elections political-rights redistricting voter-participation voting-rights Are frequent elections implied in Article 1, Section 2 Clause 1 of the United States Constitution that were meant by the Framers of the Constitution t…
22-7191 Terrence Hammock v. Gail Watts, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP civil-rights equal-protection racial-discrimination redistricting standing voting-rights Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in upholding the state's congressional map as constitutional despite evidence of racial gerrymandering
22-501 Tom Alonzo, et al. v. Scott Schwab, Kansas Secretary of State, et al. Kansas 2022-11-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gingles-prong-one minority-voting-rights racial-discrimination redistricting single-member-district standing Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit intentional racial discrimination in redistricting where the minority voters discriminated against are not suff…
22-362 Matt Huffman, President of the Ohio Senate, et al. v. Meryl Neiman, et al. Ohio 2022-10-18 GVR Relisted (2) congressional-elections congressional-redistricting constitutional-interpretation elections-clause judicial-review ohio-supreme-court proportional-representation redistricting state-constitution state-legislature Whether state courts violate the Elections Clause by enforcing state constitutional limits on a state legislature's power to regulate congressional el…
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
21-1271 Timothy K. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, et al. v. Rebecca Harper, et al. North Carolina 2022-03-21 Judgment Issued Amici (74)Relisted (3) constitutional-interpretation election-regulations elections-clause legislative-power redistricting separation-of-powers state-judiciary state-legislature voting-rights Whether a State's judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing the 'Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives .. . prescri…
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
21-474 In Re Wisconsin Legislature 2021-09-28 Denied article-iii census census-data comity federal-court-jurisdiction federalism judicial-power redistricting state-law state-legislature Does a federal court clearly and indisputably transgress its Article III judicial power by exercising jurisdiction over a redistricting dispute challe…
20-7263 Darryl A. Robinson v. Yee Sixth Circuit 2021-02-26 Dismissed IFP equal-protection first-amendment gerrymandering redistricting standing voting-rights Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the plaintiffs lack standing to challenge the constitutionality of Michigan's congressional districtin…
20-6543 Curtis Moody v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection gerrymandering redistricting standing Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioners' claims challenging the constitutionality of Ohio's congres…
18A1288 Steve Chabot, et al. v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, et al. Ohio 2019-06-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge district-court election-law gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights Whether partisan gerrymandering claims present a justiciable federal question that federal courts can adjudicate
18A1258 Michigan Senate, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete equal-protection first-amendment justiciability partisan-gerrymandering redistricting vote-dilution Whether partisan gerrymandering claims are justiciable under the Fourteenth Amendment and First Amendment, and if so, what standards govern such claim…
18A1242 Larry Householder, et al. v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, et al. Ohio 2019-05-30 Presumed Complete congressional-districts election-law gerrymandering judicial-review redistricting voting-rights Whether partisan gerrymandering claims present a justiciable federal question that federal courts can adjudicate
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
18-123 In Re Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. 2018-07-27 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2284 chief-circuit-judge civil-rights district-court district-judge due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legislative-apportionment mandamus motion-to-dismiss redistricting standing standing-doctrine three-judge-district-court three-judge-panel voting-rights Challenge to legislative district apportionment, three-judge district court, standing
25A343 Louisiana, Appellant v. Phillip Callais, et al. Louisiana Presumed Complete congressional-districts constitutional-challenge majority-minority-districts redistricting section-2 voting-rights-act Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional as applied to redistricting and violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments