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Litigation

 

Wilson v. Kasich

Case Information

Date Filed: January 4, 2012
State: Ohio
Issue: Redistricting
Courts that Heard this Case: Supreme Court of Ohio (Case 12-0019)

Issue:

Whether the Ohio Apportionment Board violated Article XI of the Ohio Constitution in its reapportionment of the Ohio General Assembly.

Status:

Complaint filed 1/04/12. Answers filed 1/17/12. Relators' merit brief filed 1/23/12. Secretary of State Husted's merit brief filed 1/30/12. Merit brief of Governor Kasich, Senate President Niehaus, and Auditor Yost filed 1/30/12. Oral argument held 4/24/12. Opinion issued 11/27/12.

Supreme 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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