Legal Opinion
Covington v. North Carolina
District Court, M.D. North Carolina
Decided January 21, 2018No. 1:15CV399PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Per curiam
On August 11, 2016, this Court held that the North Carolina General Assembly unjustifiably relied on race to draw dozens of state Senate and House of Representatives district lines, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Covington v. North Carolina (Covington I ), 316 F.R.D. 117 (M.D.N.C. 2016). The Supreme Court summarily affirmed, without dissent, that determination. North Carolina v. Covington , --- U.S. ----, 137 S.Ct. 2211, 198 L.Ed.2d 655 (2017) (mem.).
On August 31, 2017, the North Carolina General Assembly enacted Senate and House redistricting plans…
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