Special Collection: Mid-Decade Redistricting Cases

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This collection includes lawsuits challenging mid-decade redistricting, post-2020, in states across the country.

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17 Cases

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Hilton v. Weber

8:25-cv-01988 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] This is a challenge to the California ballot initiative seeking to amend the state constitution and redraw the state’s congressional lines, all…

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Jackson v. Weber I

2:25-cv-00197 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

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David Tangipa v. Gavin Newsom

2:25-cv-10616 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2025

Case Ongoing

California voters and Republicans sue Gavin Newsom over the new redistricting maps that will be introduced after the passage of Prop. 50.

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Jett v. Nardo

CL25005352-00 | Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2025

Closed Date: Nov. 18, 2025

This is a challenge to the legality of considering constitutional changes to the congressional redistricting process in the Virginia state legislature's 2024 special session. On October 31, 2025, cl…

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Jackson v. Weber

2:25-cv-00236 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2025

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] This is a lawsuit, filed in Texas, to California’s proposed state constitutional initiative to allow a mid-decade legislative gerrymander, bas…

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McDougle v. Nardo

CL25001582-00 | Virginia state supreme court

Filed Date: Oct. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] This is a challenge to the legality of considering constitutional changes to the congressional redistricting process in the Virginia legislatur…

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Missouri General Assembly v. von Glahn

4:25-cv-01535 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2025

Case Ongoing

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] This is a challenge to a Missouri referendum on the legislation redrawing the state’s congressional districts, under the Elections Clause and …

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Healey v. Missouri

2516-CV31273 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges Missouri's 2025 congressional plan, based on an alleged state constitutional prohibition on mid-decade redrawing and state provisions on compactness. On September 28, 2025, a gro…

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Wise v. Missouri

2516-CV29597 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

Constitutional challenge to Missouri’s 2025 congressional map largely rejected; map upheld while mid-decade authority claim remains pending.

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Luther v. Hoskins

25AC-CC06964 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

Every ten years, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a census, which serves as the basis for congressional apportionment. In 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau conducted the decennial census, and on August 12,…

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Missouri State Conference v. Kehoe

25AC-CC06724 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the authority of the Governor of Missouri to call a special legislative session to redraw the state's congressional map. On August 29, 2025, Governor Kehoe issued a Press Release a…

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Griffin v. North Carolina Board of Elections

5:24-cv-00731 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2024

Closed Date: May 5, 2025

In November 2024, a Democrat candidate, Allison Riggs, narrowly won an open seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court. The Republican candidate, Griffin, filed a protest with the State Board of Electi…

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Bard v. N.C. State Bd. of Elections

24-CVS-003534-910 | North Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2024

Case Ongoing

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] This is a challenge to North Carolina's 2023 congressional and state legislative districts as violating the unenumerated state constitutional r…

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North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. Berger

1:23-cv-01104 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2023

Case Ongoing

Voting rights lawsuit challenging North Carolina's 2023 electoral maps for racial discrimination against Black voters.

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Williams v. Hall

1:23-cv-01057 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 4, 2023

Closed Date: Jan. 16, 2026

On December 4, 2023, Black and Latino voters in North Carolina filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina against leaders of the North Carolina Gener…

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League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature

22-0901712 | Utah state trial court

Filed Date: March 16, 2022

Case Ongoing

Ongoing redistricting lawsuit challenging Utah's 2021 congressional map for partisan gerrymandering.

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League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott

3:21-cv-00259 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 2021

Case Ongoing

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] The American Redistricting Project (ARP) summarizes this case as follows (https://thearp.org/litigation/lulac-v-abbott/): On October 18, 2021,…