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Litigation

 

Favors v. Cuomo

Case Information

Date Filed: November 17, 2011
State: New York
Issue: Redistricting
Courts that Heard this Case: United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Case 1:11-cv-05632 )

Issue:

Whether New York's redistricting procedure violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the 14th Amendment, among other provisions.

Status:

Complaint filed 11/17/11. Motion to Dismiss Denied 5/16/12. Answer to Cross Claim filed 6/18/12. Assembly Majority's Motion for Summary Judgment on Equal Population claims and section 2 claims filed 6/29/12. Stipulation of Dismissal of Voting Rights Act Section 2 claims against Assembly defendants filed 12/18/12. Final Judgment Order filed 11/5/13. Amended Judgment Order filed 11/8/13. Order granting Motion for Summary Judgment filed 5/22/14. Plaintiff-Intervenors' First Motion for Reconsideration filed 6/4/14. Defendants' Objection to Magistrate's Report and Recommendation filed 6/6/14. Order denying Motion for Reconsideration filed 7/25/14. Order adopting Report and Recommendation filed 8/14/14. Order closing Case filed 8/14/14. Order that Clerk enter Judgment filed 9/5/14. Clerk's Order in favor of the Senate majority filed 9/11/14.

District Court Documents

 

Commentary

Edward B. Foley

Gerrymandering as Viewpoint Discrimination: A "Functional Equivalence" Test

Edward B. Foley

A First Amendment test for identifying when a map is functionally equivalent to a facially discriminatory statute.

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In the News

Daniel P. Tokaji

This is why US election ballots routinely go missing

Professor Dan Tokaji was quoted in USA Today about the prevalence of missing election ballots.

 

"Most of the time, it just goes unreported because it doesn't affect the result," Tokaji said. 


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Info & Analysis

Supreme Court Finds Partisan Gerrymandering Claims to be Non-Justiciable Political Questions

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion on Thursday determining that claims of partisan gerrymandering are political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts. The opinion resolved disputes originating in North Carolina and Maryland, in the cases of Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek.

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