Case Summary
On September 1, 2020, two Oklahoma citizens filed a petition with the Oklahoma Supreme Court challenging Initiative Petition 430, which aimed to transfer Oklahoma’s legislative redistricting authority to a redistricting commission, as unconstitutional and seeking to bar proponents from gathering signatures for it. Petitioners alleged the Initiative Petition’s mandatory mid-decade redistricting provisions would result in some state Senate districts having multiple senators in violation of the 14th Amendment’s one person, one vote requirement, and that the measure as a whole contained more than one subject in violation of Article XXIX, § 1 of the Oklahoma Constitution.
- On September 22, 2020, the initiative’s proponents announced plans to withdraw their petition and the case was dismissed as moot on September 24, 2020.
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Oklahoma Supreme Court - O-119029
- Application and Petition to Assume Original Jurisdiction and Review the Constitutionality of Initiative Petition No. 430 - 9/1/20
- Petitioners' Appendix to Application and Petition to Assume Original Jurisdiction and Review the Constitutionality of Initiative Petition No. 430 - 9/1/20
- Petitioners' Brief in Support of Application and Petition to Assume Original Jurisdiction and Review the Constitutionality of Initiative Petitions - 9/1/20
- Notice of Original Jurisdiction Supreme Court Proceeding to Review the Constitutionality of Initiative Petition 430 - 9/1/20
- Motion for Oral Argument - 9/1/20
- Order - 9/2/20
- Respondents' Motion to Dismiss - 9/23/20
- Response to Motion to Dismiss - 9/24/20
- Order - 9/24/20