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
  • Exhibits A, B, C, D, E
• 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
• Order Regarding Submission of Hard-Copy Documents - 11/25/25
• Joint Exhibit List - 12/01/25
• Joint Witness List - 12/01/25
• DCCC's Ex Parte Application to Compel Depositions of Certain Plaintiffs - 12/3/25
• Opposition of Intervenor-Defendant [LULAC] to Motions for Preliminary Injunction - 12/3/25
• DCCC's Response in Opposition to Plaintiffs' and the United States's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction - 12/3/25
• Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' and Plaintiff-Intervenor's Motions for Preliminary Injunction - 12/3/25
• Declaration [...] in Support of Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' and Plaintiff-Intervenor's Motions for Preliminary Injunction - 12/3/25
  • Exhibit 40, Part 2 of 11
  • Exhibit 40, Part 9 of 11
• Plaintiffs' Response in Opposition to DCCC's Ex Parte Application to Compel Depositions of Certain Plaintiffs - 12/4/25
• Unopposed Motion for Leave to File [Proposed] Brief of Amicus Curiae Professor Richard L. Hasen [...] - 12/4/25
• DCCC's Notice of Supplemental Authority - 12/5/25
• Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Defendant-Intervenor DCCC's Ex Parte Application to Compel [...] - 12/5/25
• Unopposed Application for Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief by NAACP LDEF in Support of Neither Party [...] - 12/8/25
• Defendants' and Defendant-Intervenors' Ex Parte Application Requesting Clarification [...] - 12/9/25
• Plaintiffs' and Plaintiff-Intervenor's Response to Defendants' and Defendant-Intervenors' Ex Parte Application Requesting Clarification [...] - 12/10/25
• Governor Newsom and Secretary Weber's Notice of Supplemental Authority - 12/10/25
• United States' Reply to Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiff-Intervenor's Motion for Preliminary Injunction - 12/10/25
• United States' Reply to Opposition of Intervenor-Defendant [LULAC] to Motions for Preliminary Injunction - 12/10/25
• United States' Reply to Opposition of Intervenor-Defendant DCCC to Motion for Preliminary Injunction - 12/10/25
• Plaintiffs' Consolidated Reply in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction - 12/11/25
• Order Clarifying Procedures for the Preliminary Injunction Hearing - 12/11/25
• Ex Parte Application to Compel the Testimony of Paul Mitchell - 12/11/25
• Notice of Errata - 12/11/25
• Order Regarding Ex Parte Application to Compel Testimony - 12/12/25
• Intervenor-Defendant [LULAC] Response to the court's Order Regarding Ex Parte Motion to Compel Testimony of Paul Mitchell - 12/12/25
• State Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs and Plaintiff-Intervenor's Motion to Compel - 12/12/25
• Defendant-Intervenor DCCC's Response to Plaintiffs' Ex Parte Application to Compel Testimony of Paul Mitchell - 12/12/25
• Non-Party Legislature of the State of California's Request for Leave to File Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel Testimony of Non-Party Paul Mitchell - 12/12/25
• United States' Supplemental Notice of Certified Transcript - 12/12/25
• Non-Party Paul Mitchell's Response to Plaintiff-Intervenor's Motion to Compel the Testimony of Paul Mitchell - 12/12/25
• Plaintiffs' Notice of Errata Re: ECF No. 1 Complaint - 12/13/25
• Order Re: Motion to Compel Testimony of Paul Mitchell - 12/13/25
• Plaintiff-Intervenor's Renewed Motion for Adverse Inference - 12/14/25
• Notice of Lodging Certified Deposition Transcripts - 12/15/25
• Notice of Joinder in Plaintiff-Intervenor United States' Renewed Motion for Adverse Inference - 12/15/25
• Defendant-Intervenor DCCC's Response to Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for Adverse Inference - 12/15/25
• Governor Newsom and Secretary Weber's Notice of Supplemental Authority - 12/15/25
• Intervenor-Defendant [LULAC] Opposition to Plaintiffs and Intervenor-Plaintiffs' Motion for Adverse Inference - 12/15/25
• Non-Party Legislature of the State of California's Request for Leave to File Opposition to Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for Adverse Inference - 12/15/25