COMMON CAUSE FLORIDA v. BYRD

Case No. 4:22-cv-109-AW-MAF.

726 F.Supp.3d 1322 (2024)

COMMON CAUSE FLORIDA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Cord BYRD, in his official capacity as Florida Secretary of State, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Florida, Tallahassee Division.

Signed March 27, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Lockamy, Henry M. Coxe, III, Bedell Dittmar Devault etc. PA, Jacksonville, FL, Alivin Li, Andrew H. Wells, Jr., Anna McKee Blum, Catherine Jane Djang, Pro Hac Vice, Gregory L. Diskant, Pro Hac Vice, Howard Gregory Baker, Pro Hac Vice, Jonah M. Knobler, Michael Kramer Halper, Pro Hac Vice, Newton Portorreal, Jr., Sarah Hardtke, Patterson Belknap Webb etc. LLP, New York, NY, Christopher David Shenton, Pro Hac Vice, Katelin Shaw Kaiser, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC, for Plaintiffs Common Cause Florida, Fairdistricts Now, Dorothy Inman-Johnson, Brenda Holt, Leo R. Stoney, Myrna Young, Nancy Ratzan, Florida State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Branches.

Michael E. Lockamy, Henry M. Coxe, III, Bedell Dittmar Devault etc. PA, Jacksonville, FL, Andrew H. Wells, Jr., Anna McKee Blum, Catherine Jane Djang, Pro Hac Vice, Gregory L. Diskant, Pro Hac Vice, Howard Gregory Baker, Pro Hac Vice, Jonah M. Knobler, Michael Kramer Halper, Pro Hac Vice, Newton Portorreal, Jr., Sarah Hardtke, Patterson Belknap Webb etc. LLP, New York, NY, Christopher David Shenton, Pro Hac Vice, Katelin Shaw Kaiser, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC, for Plaintiffs Cassandra Brown, Peter Butzin, Charlie Clark, Veatrice Holifield Farrell, Rosemary McCoy.

Mohammad Omar Jazil, Holtzman Vogel, Tallahassee, FL, for Plaintiffs Ryan Newman, J. Alex Kelly.

Ron Desantis, Pro Se.

Cameron Thomas Norris, David Leighton Rosenthal, Pro Hac Vice, Taylor A. R. Meehan, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Arlington, VA, Joseph Scott Van De Bogart, Florida Department of State Office of General Counsel, Tallahassee, FL, Joshua E. Pratt, Michael Robert Beato, Mohammad Omar Jazil, Holtzman Vogel, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendant.

Before Jordan, Circuit Judge, and Rodgers and Winsor, District Judges.


This order constitutes the findings of fact and conclusions of law of the three-judge Court following a bench trial held in September and October of 2023.

I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY

This case involves constitutional challenges to the congressional districting map proposed by Governor Ron DeSantis and enacted by the Florida Legislature...

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