Redistricting Cases in the Courts: A Roundup

Alabama

• Alabama v. Alabama Legislative Black Caucus (racial gerrymandering) (closed)
• ​Chestnut v. Merrill (section 2) (closed)

Arkansas

• Larry v. Arkansas (section 2, intentional discrimination) (closed)

Connecticut

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Merrill (prison gerrymandering) (closed)

Georgia

• Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Georgia (racial and partisan gerrymandering, section 2, intentional discrimination) (closed)
• Thompson v. Crittenden (racial gerrymandering, section 2, intentional discrimination) (closed)
• Dwight v. Raffensperger (section 2) (closed)

Louisiana

• Johnson v. Ardoin (section 2) (closed)

Maryland

• Lamone v. Benisek (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)

Michigan

• League of Women Voters of Michigan v. Benson (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)
• Citizens Protecting Michigan’s Constitution v. Sec’y of State (challenge to citizen-led ballot proposal) (closed)
• Daunt v. Benson (challenge to redistricting commission eligibility requirements) (closed)
• Michigan Republican Party v. Benson (challenge to redistricting commission) (closed)

Mississippi

• Thomas v. Reeves (section 2) (closed)

Missouri

• Ritter v. Ashcroft (challenge to citizen-led ballot proposal) (closed)
• Pippens v. Ashcroft (challenge to legislatively initiated ballot proposal) (closed)

Nevada

• Jackson v. Fair Maps Nevada (challenge to citizen-led ballot proposal) (closed)

North Carolina

• Rucho v. Common Cause (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)
• Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)
• Dickson v. Rucho (racial gerrymandering) (closed)
• Harris v. Cooper (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)
• Cooper v. Harris (racial gerrymandering) (closed)
• North Carolina v. Covington (racial gerrymandering) (closed)
• North Carolina State Conference of NAACP Branches v. Lewis (racial gerrymandering) (closed)
• Common Cause v. Lewis (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)
• Harper v. Lewis (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)
• Brewster v. Berger (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)

Ohio

• Ohio A. Philip Randolph Inst. v. Householder (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)

Oklahoma

• Gaddis v. Moore (challenge to citizen-led ballot proposal) (closed)
• Newberry v. Moore (challenge to citizen-led ballot proposal) (closed)
• McCormick v. Moore (challenge to citizen-led ballot proposal) (closed)
• Merklin v. Largent (challenge to citizen-led ballot proposal) (closed)

Pennsylvania

• League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)
• Agre v. Wolf (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)
• Diamond v. Torres (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)
• Corman v. Torres (challenge to court-drawn remedial plan) (closed)
• Holbrook v. Pennsylvania (prison gerrymandering) (closed)

Texas

• Abbott v. Perez (closed)

Virginia

• Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections (racial gerrymandering) (closed)

Wisconsin

• Gill v. Whitford (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)
• Wisconsin Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee v. Gill (partisan gerrymandering) (closed)

Background on these and other active redistricting cases can be found on the State of Redistricting Litigation page.