Legal Opinion
Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission
District Court, D. Arizona
Decided April 29, 2014No. CV-12-894-PHX-ROS-NVW-RRCPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Plaintiffs, individual voters registered in the State of Arizona, challenge the map drawn for state legislative districts by the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission for use starting in 2012, based on the 2010 census. They argue that the Commission underpopulated Democrat-leaning districts and overpopulated Republican-leaning districts for partisan reasons, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s one-person, one-vote principle. The Commission denies that it was driven by partisanship, explaining that the population deviations were driven by its efforts to comply with Section…
3Cases cited49 opinions
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4Cited by17 opinions
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