[EL] State-Court Challenge to NC Congressional Districts

[Jeff Wice]

Also of interest is the Connecticut NAACP v. Merrill case where, earlier this week, the Second Circuit sent the prison population reallocation case back to the district court to move forward with a three judge panel. This is another case where timing could play a role.
In this case, the NAACP is challenging the state’s 2011 state legislative plan for failing to reallocate prisoners to their home addresses of record before incarceration (an issue that wasn’t before the legislature in 2011 when the plan was adopted).
This case may have potential national impact and the final outcome can be appealed directly to the US Supreme Court.
Jeff Wice
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 3:46 PM, Pildes, Rick <rick.pildes at nyu.edu> wrote:
We had some discussion earlier on the list about whether plaintiffs challenging congressional maps in state court would rely only on state-law claims or also introduce federal claims.



In light of that discussion, I thought it was worth flagging that in the NC case filed today, the three counts in the complaint are based entirely on the NC Constitution.



Best,

Rick



Richard H. Pildes

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