CASE SUMMARY
On March 11, 2022 a coalition of voting rights organizations and Florida voters filed a federal lawsuit against Florida's Secretary of State, Governor, and various state legislative leaders challenging the state's lack of a new congressional redistricting plan as violating the U.S. Constitution and federal law. First, plaintiffs asserted the state's old congressional redistricting plan, based off 2010 Census data, had since become malapportioned due to population shifts in violation of the one person, one vote requirement under Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. Second, plaintiffs alleged the prior decade's congressional plan also violated 2 U.S.C. Section 2(c) because it contained only 27 congressional districts despite Florida being entitled to 28 congressional representatives after the last reapportionment of congressional seats. They originally sought a judicial declaration that Florida's current congressional districts configuration was both unconstitutional and unlawful, a preliminary and permanent injunction barring the plan from being used in future elections, and a court order establishing a schedule for the court's timely adoption and implementation of a new, lawful congressional redistricting plan for use in the 2022 elections.
On May 11, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint dropping their original claims and adding two new ones against the state's enacted congressional redistricting plan. They allege the plan was enacted with discriminatory intent against Black Floridians in violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. They are seeking a judicial declaration that the enacted plan is unconstitutional, a permanent injunction barring the defendants from using the plan in future elections, and for the court to establish a reasonable deadline for state authorities to enact a constitutional plan or for the court to adopt one on its own if the state fails to do so.
Similar Case: Arteaga v. Lee
CASE LIBRARY
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division - No. 4:22-cv-109 [formerly No. 5:22-cv-59 in the N.D. Fla., Panama City Division]
- Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief - 3/11/22
- Order Transferring Venue and 28 U.S.C. Section 2284 Notification - 3/12/22
- Order Regarding Request for Three-Judge Court - 3/14/22
- Designation of Three-Judge Court - 3/14/22
- Motion to Intervene of Proposed Intervenor-Plaintiffs Michael Arteaga, et al. - 3/16/22
- Memorandum in Support of Motion to Intervene - 3/16/22
- Order Setting Case-Management Conference and Requiring Joint Report - 3/24/22
- Florida Legislators' Motion to Dismiss - 3/29/22
- Notice of Supplemental Certification Regarding Motion to Intervene - 3/29/22
- Plaintiffs' Motion to Recuse Judge Winsor - 3/29/22
- Memorandum in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion to Recuse Judge Winsor - 3/29/22
- Notice of Dismissal Without Prejudice - 3/30/22
- Notice of Dismissal Without Prejudice - 3/30/22
- Order Recognizing Dismissal of Some Defendants - 3/31/22
- Joint Report - 3/31/22
- Defendant Secretary of State Laurel Lee's Motion to Stay - 4/1/22
- Defendant Secretary of State Laurel Lee's Response in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion to Recuse - 4/1/22
- Order Regarding Deadlines - 4/4/22
- Order Denying Motion for Recusal - 4/6/22
- Order Granting Motion to Intervene - 4/6/22
- Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendant Laurel M. Lee's Motion to Stay - 4/6/22
- Intervenor-Plaintiffs' Opposition to Defendant Secretary Lee's Motion to Stay - 4/6/22
- Plaintiffs' Supplemental Memorandum Regarding Proposed Court-Appointed Experts - 4/7/22
- Arteaga Intervenor-Plaintiffs' Special Master Recommendation - 4/7/22
- Defendant Secretary of State Laurel Lee's Supplemental Memorandum Regarding Special Masters - 4/7/22
- Defendant's Answer and Affirmative Defenses - 4/8/22
- Defendant Secretary of State Laurel Lee's Reply in Support of Her Motion to Stay - 4/8/22
- Intervenor-Plaintiffs' Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief - 4/13/22
- Plaintiffs' Proposed Congressional Map - 4/18/22
- Declaration of John Devaney in Support of Arteaga Intervenor-Plaintiffs' Submission - 4/18/22
- Defendant's Suggestion of Mootness - 4/22/22
- Order to Show Cause - 4/25/22
- Intervenor-Plaintiffs' Notice of Voluntary Dismissal - 4/28/22
- Intervenor-Plaintiffs' Response to Order to Show Cause - 4/28/22
- Plaintiffs' Motion for Leave to File an Amended Complaint - 4/29/22
- Plaintiffs' Response to the Court's Order to Show Cause and Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Leave to File an Amended Complaint - 4/29/22
- Order - 5/2/22
- Defendant Secretary of State Laurel Lee's Response to Plaintiffs' Motion to Amend - 5/9/22
- Order Granting Leave to Amend - 5/11/22
- First Amended Complaint - 5/11/22
- Stipulation and Proposed Order - 5/19/22
- Order Regarding Stipulation - 5/23/22
- Defendants' Motion to Dismiss and, in the Alternative, Motion to Stay - 6/8/22
- Plaintiffs' Unopposed Motion for Extension of Time to Respond to Motion to Dismiss - 6/15/22
- Order Granting Extension - 6/16/22
- Plaintiffs' Memorandum in Opposition to Defendants' Motion to Dismiss and, in the Alternative, Motion to Stay - 6/29/22
- Defendants' Motion for Leave to File a Reply in Support of Their Motion to Dismiss and, in the Alternative, Motion to Stay - 7/7/22
- Order Granting Motion for Leave to Reply - 7/7/22
- Defendants' Reply in Support of Their Motion to Dismiss or, in the Alternative, Motion to Stay - 7/15/22
- Order on Defendants' Motion to Dismiss and/or Stay - 11/8/22
- Answer - 11/22/22
- Joint Rule 26(f) Report - 12/22/22
- Scheduling Order - 12/23/22
- Plaintiffs' Unopposed Motion for Leave to File a Second Amended Complaint - 2/6/23
- Order Granting Leave to Amend - 2/7/23
- Second Amended Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief - 2/7/23
- Plaintiffs' Memorandum in Opposition to Motions to Quash Deposition Subpoenas - 2/16/23
- Defendant's Answer to Second Amended Complaint - 2/21/23
- Motion to Quash Deposition Subpoena or Alternatively for Protective Order - 3/20/23
- Plaintiffs' Memorandum in Opposition to Rodrigues's Motion to Quash Deposition Subpoena - 3/29/23
- Plaintiffs' Unopposed Motion for Status Conference - 5/3/23
- Motion to Quash Deposition Subpoena or Alternatively for Protective Order - 5/9/23
- Plaintiffs' Memorandum in Opposition to Jennifer Bradley's Motion to Quash Deposition Subpoena - 5/12/23
- Notice of Filing - 5/15/23
- Order Requiring Plaintiffs to File Proposed Questions - 5/17/23
- Notice of Supplemental Authority - 5/18/23
- Plaintiffs' Proposed Deposition Topics and Questions for the Mapmakers - 5/19/23
- Plaintiffs' Proposed Deposition Topics and Questions for Ryan Newman - 5/19/23
- Plaintiffs' Proposed Deposition Topics and Questions for Legislators - 5/19/23
- Declaration of Alvin Li in Support of Plaintiffs' Proposed Deposition Topics and Question - 5/19/23
- Order Granting Motions to Quash and Extending Discovery Period - 5/25/23
- Joint Extension Motion - 6/9/23
- Order Granting Motion for Extension and Adjusting Summary-Judgment Briefing Schedule - 6/12/23
- Plaintiffs' Memorandum in Opposition to Defendant's Partial Motion for Summary Judgment - 7/21/23
- The Secretary's Reply in Support of Partial Summary Judgment - 7/31/23
- Joint Motion for Continuance of Trial and Pre-Trial Deadlines - 8/4/23
- Order Regarding Trial and Schedule - 8/7/23
- Order Directing Plaintiffs to File Reply - 8/9/23
- Notice to Parties - 8/16/23
- Order Denying as Moot Defendant's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment - 8/18/23
- Order Granting Motion to Compel - 8/23/23
- Joint Motion for an Extension of Time - 8/30/23
- Order Granting Extension - 8/30/23
- Joint Pre-Trial Report - 9/5/23
- Order Regarding Trial - 9/13/23
- Order - 9/14/23
- Second Joint Notice of Filing - 9/14/23
- The Secretary's Motion to Exclude Organizational Plaintiff Witnesses - 9/14/23
- The Secretary's Trial Brief - 9/19/23
- Plaintiff's Pre-Trial Brief - 9/19/23
- Plaintiffs' Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Exclude Organizational Plaintiff Witnesses - 9/20/23