ESSEX v. KOBACH

Civil Action No. 12-4046-KHV-JWL.

874 F.Supp.2d 1069 (2012)

Robyn Renee ESSEX, Plaintiff, Benjamin D. Craig, et al., Intervenor Plaintiffs, v. Kris W. KOBACH, Kansas Secretary of State, Defendant, State of Kansas, Intervenor Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

June 7, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brent E. Haden, Haden & Byrne LLC, Columbia, MO, Jonathon E. Boatman, Michael K. Avery, McAfee & Taft, PC, Oklahoma City, OK, for Plaintiff.

Brent E. Haden, Haden & Byrne LLC, Columbia, MO, Michael K. Avery, McAfee & Taft, PC, Oklahoma City, OK, for Plaintiff.

Mark P. Johnson, Wade P. K. Carr, Snr Denton US, LLP, Kansas City, MO, Aaron M. Kroll, Gregory L. Musil, Jay E. Heidrick, Polsinelli Shughart PC, Eldon J. Shields, Steven Robert Smith, Gates, Shields & Ferguson, PA, Carson M. Hinderks, James P. Zakoura, Smithyman & Zakoura, Chtd., J. Nick Badgerow, Lindsay Todd Perkins, Michael F. Delaney, Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP, W. Greg Wright, Beam-Ward, Kruse, Wilson, Wright & Fletes, LLC, Audrey L. Snyder, Overland Park, KS, Clinton E. Patty, Eric I. Unrein, John C. Frieden, Kevin M. Fowler, Frieden, Unrein & Forbes LLP, Elizabeth R. Herbert, Pedro L. Irigonegaray, Irigonegaray & Associates, Topeka, KS, James D. Oliver, Toby Crouse, Foulston Siefkin LLP, John J. Diehl, Armstrong Teasdale LLP, St. Louis, MO, Ricardo A. Kolster, Tyson H. Ketchum, Armstrong Teasdale LLP, Bryant T. Lamer, Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP, Kansas City, MO, Michael R. O'Neal, Gilliland & Hayes, PA, Hutchinson, KS, F. James Robinson, Jr., Hite, Fanning & Honeyman, L.L.P., Wichita, KS, John J. Rubin, John J. Rubin, Attorney at Law, Charles W. Macheers, Charles W. Macheers, LLC, Shawnee, KS, for Intervenor Plaintiffs.

Kris W. Kobach, Secretary of State, Ryan A. Kriegshauser, Kansas Secretary of State, Topeka, KS, for Defendant.

Jeffrey A. Chanay, Martha M. Snyder, Office of Attorney General, Topeka, KS, Stephen R. McAllister, Thompson Ramsdell & Qualseth, PA, Lawrence, KS, for Intervenor Defendant.

Before KATHRYN H. VRATIL, Chief District Judge, MARY BECK BRISCOE, Chief Judge of the Tenth Circuit, and JOHN W. LUNGSTRUM, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Under the state Constitution, every ten years, the Kansas legislature must draw new districts for the United States Congress, the Kansas Senate, the Kansas House of Representatives and the Kansas Board of Education.1 Since the 2010 decennial census, the legislature has failed to approve new maps. While legislators publicly demurred that they had done the best they could, the impasse resulted from a bitter ideological feud ...

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