[EL] 3-Judge Federal Court Strikes Down 2 North Carolina Congressional Districts as Racial Gerrymanders

[Rick Hasen]

    3-Judge Federal Court Strikes Down 2 North Carolina Congressional
    Districts as Racial Gerrymanders <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79650>

Posted onFebruary 5, 2016 3:33 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79650>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The 100 pages of opinions arehere 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/North-Carolina-Decision.pdf>. 
One of the three judges dissented as to one of the two districts.

If North Carolina wishes, it could seek direct Supreme Court review. 
There isalready a Virginia case 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/wittman-v-personhuballah/?wpmp_switcher=desktop> 
raising similar issues before the Court. And we are waiting for other 
rulings in similar cases, including the remand of the Alabama racial 
gerrymandering case from last year which got this ball rolling.

On these cases, see my piece, Racial Gerrymandering’s Questionable 
Revival,/Alabama Law Review/(forthcoming 2015) (draft available 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2601459>).

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