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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF PA v. COMMONWEALTH OF PA

No. 18-1838.

921 F.3d 378 (2019)

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA; Carmen Febo San Miguel; James Solomon; John Greiner; John Capowski; Gretchen Brandt; Thomas Rentschler; Mary Elizabeth Lawn; Lisa Isaacs; Don Lancaster; Jordi Comas; Robert Smith; William Marx; Richard Mantell; Priscilla McNulty; Thomas Ulrich; Robert McKinstry; Mark Lichty; Lorraine Petrosky, v. The COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA; the Pennsylvania General Assembly; Governor of Pennsylvania, in his capacity as governor of Pennsylvania; Michael J. Stack, III, in his capacity as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and President of the Pennsylvania Senate; Michael C. Turzai, in his capacity as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; Joseph B. Scarnati, III, in his capacity as Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore; Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Commissioner of the Bureau of Commissions, Elections, and Legislation of the Pennsylvania Department of State Joseph B. Scarnati, III, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: April 24, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew H. Haverstick , [ARGUED], Shohin H. Vance , Joshua J. Voss , Kleinbard, Three Logan Square, 1717 Arch Street, 5th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Counsel for Appellant.

Sara M. D'Amico , Daniel F. Jacobson , R. Stanton Jones , John J. Robinson , Elisabeth S. Theodore , [ARGUED], Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, 601 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20001, Benjamin D. Geffen , Mary M. McKenzie , Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, 1709 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, United Way Building, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Counsel for Appellees League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, Carmen Febo San Miguel, James Solomon, John Greiner, John Capowski, Gretchen Brandt, Thomas Rentschler, Mary Elizabeth Lawn, Lisa Isaacs, Don Lancaster, Jordi Comas, Robert Smith, William Marx, Richard Mantell, Priscilla McNulty, Thomas Ulrich, Robert McKinstry, Mark Lichty, and Lorraine Petrosky.

Before: AMBRO, SCIRICA, and RENDELL, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

In 2017, the League of Women Voters and a group of Pennsylvania Democratic voters filed a state court lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania's 2011 congressional districting map. The suit alleged the state's Republican lawmakers drew the congressional map to entrench Republican power in Pennsylvania...

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