CASE SUMMARY
On December 4, 2023, plaintiffs brought a federal lawsuit under the 14th and 15th Amendments alleging unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. They seek a judicial declaration that the plan is unconstitutional, an injunction barring the plan from use in future elections, and for the court to require a new, lawful plan be enacted.
A three-judge panel of the Middle District consolidated N.C. NAACP v. Berger with Williams v. Hall on March 18, 2024.
CASE LIBRARY
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina - No. 1:23-cv-1057
- Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief - 12/4/23
- Order - 12/15/23
- Unopposed Motion for Extension of Time to Respond to Plaintiffs' Complaint [...] - 12/22/23
- Legislative Defendants' Motion to Consolidate - 1/25/24
- Memorandum in Support of Legislative Defendants' Motion to Consolidate - 1/25/24
- Answer of Legislative Defendants - 2/12/24
- State Board Defendants' Answer - 2/12/24
- Memorandum in Opposition to Legislative Defendants' Motion to Consolidate - 2/15/24
- Reply to Plaintiffs' Response in Opposition to Legislative Defendants' Motion to Consolidate - 2/29/24
- Amended Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief - 3/4/24
- Plaintiffs' Notice Regarding Their Opposition to Legislative Defendants' Motion to Consolidate - 3/4/24
- State Board Defendants' Answer to Amended Complaint - 3/15/24
- Answer of Legislative Defendants to Amended Complaint - 3/18/24
- Order - 3/18/24
- Notice - 3/27/24
- Notice of Cancellation - 4/17/24
- Notice of Pretrial Conference - 4/19/24
- Joint Rule 26(f) Report - 4/24/24
- Amended Joint Rule 26(f) Report - 5/14/24
- Order - 5/22/24
- Notice of Cancellation - 5/22/24
- Notice of Bench Trial - 5/23/24
- Joint Motion for Protective Order - 7/17/24
- Unopposed Motion for Voluntary Dismissal of Plaintiff Joan Chavis - 7/17/24
- Plaintiffs' Unopposed Motion for Judicial Notice of Scrivener's Error in Their Complaint - 7/17/24
- Consent Protective Order - 7/22/24
- Order - 7/25/24
- Order - 7/25/24
- NAACP Plaintiffs' Motion for a Protective Order Over the Identities of Non-Party Members of the Organizational Plaintiffs - 10/4/24
- Memorandum of Law in Support of NAACP Plaintiffs' Motion for a Protective Order [...] - 10/4/24
- Declaration of Hillary Harris Klein - 10/4/24
- Second Declaration of Hillary Harris Klein - 10/4/24
- Legislative Defendants' Response to NAACP Plaintiffs' Motion for a Protective Order - 10/16/24
- Reply in Support of NAACP Plaintiffs' Motion for a Protective Order [...] - 10/23/24
- Third Declaration of Hilary Harris Kelin in Support of NAACP Plaintiffs' Motion for a Protective Order - 10/23/24
- Declaration of Stuart Naifeh - 10/23/24
- Joint Motion by Legislative Defendants and NAACP Plaintiffs to Continue a Deposition Out of Time - 10/28/24
- Consent Motion for Extension of time to Take Deposition of Stephen James Mallison - 11/4/24
- Order - 11/4/24
- Order - 11/4/24