Gustafson v. Johns

ORDER

This action is the latest chapter in a long history of legal challenges to Alabama’s 2001 legislative redistricting. Plaintiffs, nineteen Aabama voters, challenge the redistricting plans, Acts 2001-727 and 2001-729, on several grounds. They assert that the plans (1) violate the constitutional guarantee of one-person-one-vote; (2) constitute illegal partisan gerrymandering; and (3) violate Plaintiffs’ First Amendment right to freedom of association. The issue before this Court 1 is whether this action is barred by earlier challenges to the redistricting plans. We hold that this action is…