MCCONCHIE v. SCHOLZ

Case No. 21-cv-3091, Case No. 21-cv-3139, Case No. 21-cv-5512.

577 F.Supp.3d 842 (2021)

Dan MCCONCHIE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Charles W. SCHOLZ, et al., Defendants. Julie Contreras, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Illinois State Board of Elections, et al., Defendants. East St. Louis Branch NAACP, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Illinois State Board of Elections, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

Decided December 30, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Edward Harris, II, Christopher Steven Comstock, Mitchell Douglas Holzrichter, Thomas Vangel Panoff, Mayer Brown LLP, Ricardo Meza, Meza Law, Chicago, IL, Phillip Anthony Luetkehans, Brian J. Armstrong, Jessica Grace Nosalski, Luetkehans, Brady, Garner & Armstrong LLC, Itasca, IL, for Plaintiffs Dan McConchie in 21-cv-3091, Jim Durkin in 21-cv-3091.

Charles Edward Harris, II, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs Republican Caucus of the Illinois Senate in 21-cv-3091, Republican Caucus of the Illinois House of Representatives in 21-cv-3091, Felipe Luna, Jr. in 21-cv-3091, Salvador Tremillo in 21-cv-3091, Christopher Romero in 21-cv-3091, Dolores Diaz in 21-cv-3091, James Rivera in 21-cv-3091, Anna De La Torre in 21-cv-3091.

The Illinois Republican Party, Pro Se in 21-cv-3091.

Mary Alice Johnston, Illinois Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendants Ian K. Linnabary in 21-cv-5512, 21-cv-3139, 21-cv-3091, William M. McGuffage in 21-cv-5512, 21-cv-3091, 21-cv-3139, William J. Cadigan in 21-cv-5512, 21-cv-3139, 21-cv-3091, Laura K. Donahue in 21-cv-5512, 21-cv-3091, 21-cv-3139, Casandra B. Watson in 21-cv-5512, 21-cv-3091, 21-cv-3139, Illinois State Board of Elections in 21-cv-3139, 21-cv-5512, Charles W. Scholz in 21-cv-3139, William R. Haine in 21-cv-3139, S. O'Brien in 21-cv-3139, Catherine S. McCrory in 21-cv-5512, Rick S. Terven, Sr. in 21-cv-5512.

Adam Robert Vaught, Kilbride & Vaught, LLC, LaGrange, IL, Michael James Kasper, Kasper & Nottage, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Defendant Emanuel Christopher Welch in 21-cv-3091.

Adam Robert Vaught, Kilbride & Vaught, LLC, Heather Wier Vaught, Heather Wier Vaught P.C., LaGrange, IL, Michael James Kasper, Kasper & Nottage, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Defendant Office of Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives in 21-cv-3091.

Adam Robert Vaught, Kilbride & Vaught, LLC, LaGrange, IL, Michael James Kasper, Kasper & Nottage, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Defendants Emanuel Christopher Welch in 21-cv-3139, Office of the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives in 21-cv-3139.

Adam Robert Vaught, Kilbride & Vaught, LLC, LaGrange, IL, Colleen Carlton Smith, Pro Hac Vice, Latham & Watkins LLP, San Diego, CA, Devon C. Bruce, Powers, Rogers & Smith, Michael James Kasper, Kasper & Nottage, P.C., Sean M. Berkowitz, Latham & Watkins LLP, Chicago, IL, Elizabeth H. Yandell, Pro Hac Vice, Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant Don Harmon in 21-cv-3091, 21-cv-3139.

Adam Robert Vaught, Kilbride & Vaught, LLC, LaGrange, IL, Devon C. Bruce, Powers, Rogers & Smith, Michael James Kasper, Kasper & Nottage, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Defendant Office of the President of the Illinois Senate in 21-cv-3091, 21-cv-3139.

Julie Anne Bauer, Nathan R. Gilbert, Winston & Strawn LLP, Griselda Vega Samuel, Francisco Fernandez Del Castillo, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), Chicago, IL, Thomas A. Saenz, Pro Hac Vice, Ernest Israel Herrera, Pro Hac Vice, Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Los Angeles, CA, Denise Marie Hulett, Mexican American Legal Defense And Educational Fund, Sacramento, CA, for Plaintiffs Julie Contreras in 21-cv-3139, Rose Torres in 21-cv-3139, Abraham Martinez in 21-cv-3139, Irvin Fuentes in 21-cv-3139, Irene Padilla in 21-cv-3139.

Griselda Vega Samuel, Mexican American Legal Defense And Educational Fund (MALDEF), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs Troy Hernandez in 21-cv-3139, Ivan Medina in 21-cv-3139, Alfredo Calixto in 21-cv-3139, Jose Alcala in 21-cv-3139, Laura Murphy in 21-cv-3139, Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois in 21-cv-3139, Cristina Flores in 21-cv-3139, Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois in 21-cv-3139.

Ami D. Gandhi, Clifford Helm, Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Matthew Lawrence Kutcher, Cooley LLP, Chicago, IL, Jon Marshall Greenbaum, Ryan Richard Talbert Snow, Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Joseph Michael Drayton, Cooley LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations in 21-cv-5512.

Ami D. Gandhi, Clifford Helm, Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Matthew Lawrence Kutcher, Cooley LLP, Chicago, IL, Elizabeth Wright, Pro Hac Vice, Cooley LLP, Boston, MA, Jon Marshall Greenbaum, Ryan Richard Talbert Snow, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Joseph Michael Drayton, Cooley LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff Illinois State Conference NAACP in 21-cv-5512.

Ami D. Gandhi, Clifford Helm, Aneel Lachman Chablani, Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Matthew Lawrence Kutcher, Cooley LLP, Chicago, IL, Elizabeth Wright, Pro Hac Vice, Cooley LLP, Boston, MA, Jon Marshall Greenbaum, Ryan Richard Talbert Snow, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Joseph Michael Drayton, Cooley LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff NAACP East St. Louis Branch in 21-cv-5512.

Adam Robert Vaught, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Devon C. Bruce, Powers, Rogers & Smith, Sean M. Berkowitz, Latham & Watkins LLP, Chicago, IL, Colleen Carlton Smith, Pro Hac Vice, Latham & Watkins LLP, San Diego, CA, Elizabeth H. Yandell, Pro Hac Vice, Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, CA, Heather Wier Vaught, Heather Wier Vaught P.C., LaGrange, IL, for Defendant Don Harmon in 21-cv-5512.

Adam Robert Vaught, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago, IL, Heather Wier Vaught, Heather Wier Vaught P.C., LaGrange, IL, for Defendant Emanuel Christopher Welch in 21-cv-5512.


Plaintiffs in these three consolidated cases, McConchie, Contreras, and East St. Louis NAACP, challenge Illinois' legislative redistricting map1 and ask this Court to order alterations that would create additional districts featuring majorities of either Latino or Black voters. All Plaintiffs bring...

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