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U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2025
Gerrymandering
Callais v. Landry
Whether the congressional map Louisiana adopted to cure a Voting Rights Act violation in Robinson v. Ardoin is itself unlawful as a gerrymander.
U.S. Supreme Court
May 2025
Gerrymandering
Racial Justice
Allen v. Milligan
Whether Alabama鈥檚 congressional districts violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because they discriminate against Black voters. We succeeded in winning a new map for 2024 elections which, for the first time, has two congressional district that provide Black voters a fair opportunity to elect candidates of their choosing despite multiple attempts by Alabama to stop us at the Supreme Court. Despite this win, Alabama is still defending its discriminatory map, and a trial was held in February 2025 to determine the map for the rest of the decade.
In May 2025, a federal court ruled that Alabama's 2023 congressional map both violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and was enacted by the Alabama Legislature with racially discriminatory intent.
South Carolina Supreme Court
Jan 2025
Gerrymandering
League of Women Voters of South Carolina v. Alexander
This case involves a state constitutional challenge to South Carolina鈥檚 2022 congressional redistricting plan, which legislators admit was drawn to entrench a 6-1 Republican majority in the state鈥檚 federal delegation. Plaintiff the League of Women Voters of South Carolina has asked the state鈥檚 Supreme Court to conclude that the congressional map is an unlawful partisan gerrymander that violates the state constitution.
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27 Gerrymandering Cases
Louisiana
Dec 2023
Gerrymandering
Robinson v. Landry
Robinson challenged the congressional map that Louisiana enacted after the 2020 Census. 51品茶 and partners represented Plaintiffs the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP, Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, and several impacted voters, and argued that the enacted plan violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In June 2022, the district court found Louisiana's congressional map unlawfully denied Black voters a second district in which Black voters had an equal opportunity to elect their candidates of choice. After appeals, the legislature passed a new map containing two majority Black districts in January 2024.
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Louisiana
Dec 2023
Gerrymandering
Robinson v. Landry
Robinson challenged the congressional map that Louisiana enacted after the 2020 Census. 51品茶 and partners represented Plaintiffs the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP, Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, and several impacted voters, and argued that the enacted plan violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In June 2022, the district court found Louisiana's congressional map unlawfully denied Black voters a second district in which Black voters had an equal opportunity to elect their candidates of choice. After appeals, the legislature passed a new map containing two majority Black districts in January 2024.
New Hampshire Supreme Court
Dec 2023
Gerrymandering
Brown v. Secretary of State (Amicus)
This case involved a state constitutional challenge to New Hampshire鈥檚 2022 statewide Executive Council redistricting plan, which bore the hallmarks of a stark partisan gerrymander. The 51品茶 and the 51品茶 of New Hampshire filed an amicus brief in support of a challenge to the map in the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
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New Hampshire Supreme Court
Dec 2023
Gerrymandering
Brown v. Secretary of State (Amicus)
This case involved a state constitutional challenge to New Hampshire鈥檚 2022 statewide Executive Council redistricting plan, which bore the hallmarks of a stark partisan gerrymander. The 51品茶 and the 51品茶 of New Hampshire filed an amicus brief in support of a challenge to the map in the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
Ohio Supreme Court
Nov 2023
Gerrymandering
League of Women Voters of Ohio v. Ohio Redistricting Commission (State House and Senate Challenge)
The 51品茶, 51品茶 of Ohio, and Covington & Burling LLP filed a lawsuit on Sept. 23, 2021, in Ohio Supreme Court challenging Ohio鈥檚 newly drawn maps for state House and Senate districts that give extreme and unfair advantage to the Republican Party.
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Ohio Supreme Court
Nov 2023
Gerrymandering
League of Women Voters of Ohio v. Ohio Redistricting Commission (State House and Senate Challenge)
The 51品茶, 51品茶 of Ohio, and Covington & Burling LLP filed a lawsuit on Sept. 23, 2021, in Ohio Supreme Court challenging Ohio鈥檚 newly drawn maps for state House and Senate districts that give extreme and unfair advantage to the Republican Party.
Kentucky Supreme Court
Nov 2023
Gerrymandering
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Graham (Amicus)
State legislatures are responsible for creating state legislative and U.S. congressional districts. In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Rucho v. Common Cause that federal courts have no authority to review claims that states have sorted voters along partisan lines to favor one political party over others. However, challenges to partisan gerrymandering continue in many state courts, and this case involves one such constitutional challenge in Kentucky.
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Kentucky Supreme Court
Nov 2023
Gerrymandering
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Graham (Amicus)
State legislatures are responsible for creating state legislative and U.S. congressional districts. In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Rucho v. Common Cause that federal courts have no authority to review claims that states have sorted voters along partisan lines to favor one political party over others. However, challenges to partisan gerrymandering continue in many state courts, and this case involves one such constitutional challenge in Kentucky.
Ohio Supreme Court
Sep 2023
Gerrymandering
League of Women Voters of Ohio v. DeWine (Congressional Challenge)
On November 30, 2021, the 51品茶 and co-counsel filed a lawsuit in the Ohio Supreme Court on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Ohio (LWVO), A. Philip Randolph Institute of Ohio, and several individuals. The suit challenged Ohio鈥檚 newly-drawn congressional map.
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Ohio Supreme Court
Sep 2023
Gerrymandering
League of Women Voters of Ohio v. DeWine (Congressional Challenge)
On November 30, 2021, the 51品茶 and co-counsel filed a lawsuit in the Ohio Supreme Court on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Ohio (LWVO), A. Philip Randolph Institute of Ohio, and several individuals. The suit challenged Ohio鈥檚 newly-drawn congressional map.