Baldus v. Members of the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board

ORDER

After a two-day trial in this ease, we issued an opinion upholding Wisconsin’s new congressional and legislative districts in all but one respect. We concluded that, as drawn in Act 43, Assembly Districts 8 and 9 violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and had to be redrawn. Baldus v. Members of Wisconsin Government Accountability Bd., 849 F.Supp.2d 840, 859-60, 2012 WL 983685, *17 (E.D.Wis. Mar. 22, 2012). On March 27, 2012, we instructed the parties to conduct at least one meet-and-confer conference to explore the possibility of reaching an agreed-upon configuration of Assembly…