Subject: [Fwd: SCOTUS per curiam in the Colorado re-redistricting case, Round 2]
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 2/21/2006, 11:46 AM
To: election-law

Messsage from Pam Karlan:

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Subject: SCOTUS per curiam in the Colorado re-redistricting case, Round 2
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:29:00 -0800
From: Pam Karlan <karlan@stanford.edu>
To: Rick Hasen <Rick.Hasen@lls.edu>, election-law <election-law@majordomo.lls.edu>


The Supreme Court today summarily vacated the district court's decision in Lance v. Dennis (a second iteration of the Colorado re-redistricting case) on the grounds that the district court had misapplied the famously abstruse Rooker-Feldman doctrine.  See http://scotus.ap.org/scotus/05-555p.zpc.pdf  Justice Ginsburg (who probably is the one person in America who does understand Rooker-Feldman) filed a concurrence and Justice Stevens dissented, both pointing out that the claim might nonetheless be precluded, even if there were federal-court jurisdiction.

Pamela S. Karlan
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