Subject: message from Pam Karlan re: Another possible federal claim
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 10/2/2002, 12:29 PM
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Subject: Re: message from Nate Persily: Another possible federal claim
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 15:26:23 -0400
From: Pam Karlan <psk7e@virginia.edu>
To: Rick.Hasen@lls.edu


At 10:49 AM 10/2/2002 -0700, you wrote:

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Subject: Another possible federal claim
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 13:42:03 -0400
From: Nathaniel Persily <npersily@law.upenn.edu>
Organization: University of Pennsylvania Law School
To: Rick.Hasen@lls.edu
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"The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and
Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the LEGISLATURE
thereof...."

Here we go again.

Nate
Actually, this issue is already pending in front of the Court in Branch v. Smith, the Mississippi congressional redistricting case (to be argued in December by Rob McDuff; I'm co-counsel).  There, a three-judge federal district court held that the Time, Place, and Manner clause barred a state court from adjudicating a state-law claim regarding congressional redistricting absent an express statutory conferral of jurisdiction. Pam Karlan
Pamela S. Karlan
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