Gerrymandering
Allen v. Milligan
Whether Alabama’s congressional districts violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because they discriminate against Black voters. We succeeded in winning a new map for 2024 elections which, for the first time, has two congressional district that provide Black voters a fair opportunity to elect candidates of their choosing despite multiple attempts by Alabama to stop us at the Supreme Court. Despite this win, Alabama is still defending its discriminatory map, and a trial was held in February 2025 to determine the map for the rest of the decade.
In May 2025, a federal court ruled that Alabama's 2023 congressional map both violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and was enacted by the Alabama Legislature with racially discriminatory intent.
Status: Ongoing
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U.S. Supreme Court
Mar 2025
Gerrymandering
Callais v. Landry
Whether the congressional map Louisiana adopted to cure a Voting Rights Act violation in Robinson v. Ardoin is itself unlawful as a gerrymander.
South Carolina Supreme Court
Jan 2025
Gerrymandering
League of Women Voters of South Carolina v. Alexander
This case involves a state constitutional challenge to South Carolina’s 2022 congressional redistricting plan, which legislators admit was drawn to entrench a 6-1 Republican majority in the state’s federal delegation. Plaintiff the League of Women Voters of South Carolina has asked the state’s Supreme Court to conclude that the congressional map is an unlawful partisan gerrymander that violates the state constitution.
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28 Gerrymandering Cases
U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2019
Gerrymandering
Rucho v. Common Cause/Benisek v. Lamone (Amicus)
Whether partisan gerrymandering claims are justiciable and whether the plaintiffs in North Carolina and Maryland established that the legislatures had impermissibly sought to benefit one party over the other, regardless of how voters voted.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2019
Gerrymandering
Rucho v. Common Cause/Benisek v. Lamone (Amicus)
Whether partisan gerrymandering claims are justiciable and whether the plaintiffs in North Carolina and Maryland established that the legislatures had impermissibly sought to benefit one party over the other, regardless of how voters voted.
Court Case
May 2019
Gerrymandering
Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute v. Smith
The ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Ohio U.S. congressional map as unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering. The lawsuit seeks to replace the map with one that accurately reflects the will of voters and complies with the Constitution.
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Court Case
May 2019
Gerrymandering
Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute v. Smith
The ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Ohio U.S. congressional map as unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering. The lawsuit seeks to replace the map with one that accurately reflects the will of voters and complies with the Constitution.
U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 2018
Gerrymandering
Benisek v. Lamone
Does the First Amendment prohibit a state legislature from redistricting that is intended to secure partisan advantage for the governing party and has the effect of entrenching that party’s advantage?
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 2018
Gerrymandering
Benisek v. Lamone
Does the First Amendment prohibit a state legislature from redistricting that is intended to secure partisan advantage for the governing party and has the effect of entrenching that party’s advantage?
U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2017
Gerrymandering
Gill v. Whitford
Whether partisan gerrymandering that entrenches a legislative majority violates the First Amendment.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2017
Gerrymandering
Gill v. Whitford
Whether partisan gerrymandering that entrenches a legislative majority violates the First Amendment.
Rhode Island
Sep 2016
Gerrymandering
Davidson v. City of Cranston
Cranston, Rhode Island residents joined the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ of Rhode Island to sue the City of Cranston, charging that the 2012 redistricting plan for the City Council and School Committee violates the one person, one vote principle of the U.S. Constitution by counting incarcerated people in their prison location as if they were all residents of Cranston.
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Rhode Island
Sep 2016
Gerrymandering
Davidson v. City of Cranston
Cranston, Rhode Island residents joined the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ of Rhode Island to sue the City of Cranston, charging that the 2012 redistricting plan for the City Council and School Committee violates the one person, one vote principle of the U.S. Constitution by counting incarcerated people in their prison location as if they were all residents of Cranston.