Case Summary
A group of California voters filed suit on November 5, 2025, against a congressional map adopted by the California legislature that plaintiffs allege is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander that violates the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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United States District Court, Central District of California - No. 2:25-cv-10616
- Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief, Request for Convening of Three-Judge Court, and Demand for Preliminary and Permanent Injunction - 11/5/25
- Notice of Motion and Motion for Preliminary Injunction - 11/7/25
- Ex Parte Application to File an Oversize Brief, Request for Convening of Three-Judge Court, action Seeking Statewide Relief - 11/7/25
- Joint Stipulation for an Order Shortening Time - 11/7/25
- Order Granting Plaintiffs' Ex Parte Application to File an Oversize Brief - 11/12/25
- Order Granting DCCC's Motion to Intervene - 11/12/25
- Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Unted States' Motion to Intervene - 11/13/25
- United States' Complaint in Intervention - 11/13/25
- Certificate of the Attorney General - 11/13/25
- [Proposed] Order Granting the United States' Motion to Intervene - 11/13/25
- United States' Notice of Motion and Motion for Preliminary Injunction - 11/13/25
- Joint Stipulation for Order Shortening Time - 11/13/25
- Notice of Requirement to Immediately Notify the Chief Judge of the Circuit [...] to Create a Three-Judge Panel - 11/13/25
- Plaintiff-Intervenor Notice of Errata Re: Motion for Preliminary Injunction and Declaration of Maureen Riordan - 11/13/25
- Order Appointing a Three-Judge Panel - 11/13/25
- Notice Supplementing United States' Motion to Intervene - 11/14/25
- Order Granting United States' Motion to Intervene and Granting Stipulation for Order Shortening Time - 11/14/25
- Notice of Motion and Defendant-Intervenor League of United Latin American Citizens' Rule 24 Motion to Intervene - 11/15/25
- Notice of Motion and Defendant-Intervenor League of United Latin American Citizens' Ex Parte Motion to Expedite - 11/16/25
- United States' Complaint in Intervention - 11/17/25
- Declaration of Julie A. Hamill in Support of United States' Complaint in Intervention - 11/17/25
- Order Granting Motion to Expedite - 11/17/25
- Notice of Motion and Opposed Motion to Intervene - 11/17/25
- Notice of Motion and Proposed Cervantes Intervenor-Defendants' Motion to Expedite - 11/17/25
- Order Granting Proposed Cervantes Intervenor-Defendants' Motion to Expedite - 11/18/25
- Plaintiffs Opposition to Defendant-Intervenor Ex Parte Motion to Intervene - 11/18/25
- DCCC's Motion to File an Overlength Brief - 11/19/25
- Order Scheduling Status Conference - 11/19/25
- Defendants' Unopposed Motion to Increase Word Limit of Brief in Opposition to Plaintiffs' and Plaintiff-Intervenor's Motions for Preliminary Injunction - 11/19/25
- Defendants' and Defendant-Intervenors' Ex Parte Joint Application to modify Preliminary Injunction Briefing and Hearing Schedule - 11/19/25
- Plaintiffs and Plaintiff-Intervenor's Opposition to Defendants and Defendant-Intervenors' Ex Parte Joint Application to Modify Preliminary Injunction Briefing and Hearing Schedule - 11/20/25
- Plaintiff-Intervenor United States' Notice of Motion and Motion to Increase Word Limit or Reply Brief - 11/21/25
- Joint Stipulation for Ordering Consolidating Defendants' Deadline to Respond to Complaints - 11/21/25
- Plaintiffs' Notice of Errata Re: ECF No. 16-1 Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Plaintiffs - 11/25/25