CASE SUMMARY

Nine plaintiffs filed a petition for an original action on May 7, 2025, with the Wisconsin Supreme Court alleging Wisconsin's judicially imposed congressional map is gerrymandered in violation of the Wisconsin Constitution. The petition was denied on June 25, 2025.

Eleven plaintiffs (9 from Bothfeld I plus two new plaintiffs) filed a new petition on July 21, 2025, in the Dane County Circuit Court requesting that the Wisconsin Supreme Court appoint a three-judge panel of lower court judges to review whether the map imposed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court was a partisan gerrymander that violates the Wisconsin Constitution.

CASE LIBRARY

Dane County Circuit Court - No. 2025CV2432

• Summons and Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief - 7/21/25
• Letter to the Court from Troutman Pepper Locke - 7/23/25
• Response Letter from DeWitt to the Letter to the Court from Troutman Pepper Locke - 7/25/25
• Defendants' Answer and Statement of No Position - 8/25/25
• Plaintiffs' Notice of Motion and Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings - 9/5/25
• Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings - 9/5/25
• Letter to the Court from Troutman Pepper Locke - 9/16/25
• Plaintiffs' Request for Entry of a Briefing Schedule - 9/16/25
• Plaintiffs' Proposed Briefing Schedule - 9/16/25
• Order Denying Request for Briefing Schedule - 9/23/25
• Memorandum of Law in Support of Proposed Intervenor-Defendants [...] Motion to Intervene as Defendants - 11/26/25
• Proposed Intervenor-Defendants [...] Motion to Intervene as Defendants - 11/26/25
• Proposed Answer of Proposed Intervenor Defendants [...] - 11/26/25
• Proposed Order Granting Motion to Intervene - 11/26/25
• Plaintiffs' Motion for Entry of a Briefing Schedule - 12/1/25
• Letter from Proposed Intervenor-Defendants Opposing Motion for Entry of a Briefing Schedule - 12/2/25
• Order Granting Motion to Intervene - 12/2/25
• Brief in Support of Motion of Billie Johnson [et al] to Intervene as Defendants - 12/2/25
• Proposed Intervenor-Defendant the Wisconsin State Legislature's Notice of Motion and Motion to Intervene - 12/3/25
• Proposed Intervenor-Defendant the Wisconsin State Legislature's Memorandum in Support of Its Motion to Intervene - 12/3/25
• Proposed Answer of Proposed Intervenor-Defendant the Wisconsin State Legislature - 12/3/25
• Order Granting Proposed Intervenor-Defendant the Wisconsin State Legislature's Motion to Intervene - 12/3/25
• Letter Brief from the Wisconsin State Legislature - 12/3/25
• Order to Respond to Motions to Intervene - 12/8/25
• Letter from Troutman Pepper Locke - 12/11/25

Wisconsin Supreme Court - No. 2025XX1438

• Order - 9/25/25
• Motion of [Republican Congressmen and Intervenors] to [Intervene, File Motions to Recuse, or Alternatively, to File Nonparty Brief] - 10/9/25
• Proposed Motion of [Republican Congressmen] to Recuse Justice Janet C. Protasiewicz - 10/9/25
• Proposed Motion of [Republican Congressmen] to Recuse Justice Susan M. Crawford - 10/9/25
• Proposed Brief of Proposed Intervenor-Defendants [...] Per This Court's September 25, 2025 Order - 10/9/25
• Nonparty Brief of the Wisconsin Legislature as Amicus Curiae in Opposition to Appointment of a Three-Judge Panel and in Support of Dismissal - 10/9/25
• Plaintiffs' Opening Brief - 10/9/25
• Plaintiffs' Opposition to Proposed Intervenors' Motion to Intervene as Defendants - 10/15/25
• Motion of Proposed Intervenor-Defendants [...] to File a Response to This Court's September 25, 2025 Order [...] - 10/16/25
• Proposed Response Brief of Proposed Intervenor-Defendants [...] to Plaintiffs' Initial Brief in Response to This Court's September 25, 2025 Order - 10/16/25
• Order - 10/17/25
• Plaintiffs' Response Brief - 10/20/25
• Order Denying Intervenors' Motion to Recuse Justice Susan M. Crawford - 11/25/25
• Order Denying Intervenors' Motion to Recuse Justice Janet C. Protasiewicz - 11/25/25
• Order Appointing a Three-Judge Panel - 11/25/25