MS STATE CONFERENCE v. STATE BD. OF ELEC. COMMRS.

CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:22-CV-734-DPJ-HSO-LHS.

739 F.Supp.3d 383 (2024)

MISSISSIPPI STATE CONFERENCE OF the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, et al., Plaintiffs v. STATE BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Northern Division, Northern Division.

Filed July 2, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Casey Katharine Smith PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Garrett Muscatel PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Ari J. Savitzky PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Kelsey A. Miller PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Ming Cheung PHV, Pro Hac Vice, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc., New York, NY, Celina Antonellis PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Boston, MA, Jaclyn Unis Whittaker PHV, Pro Hac Vice, John Patrick Lavelle, Jr., PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Javon Davis PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Ezra D. Rosenberg PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Jennifer Nwachukwu PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Marlin David Rollins-Boyd PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Patricia Jia Yan PHV, Pro Hac Vice, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Washington, DC, Jon Greenbaum PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Justice Legal Strategies, PLLC, Washington, DC, Drew Cleary Jordan PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Washington, DC, Joshua F. Tom, McKenna E. Raney-Gray, ACLU of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, Paloma Wu, Mississippi Center for Justice, Jackson, MS, Robert B. McDuff, The Law Office of Robert McDuff, Jackson, MS, Carroll Edward Rhodes, Law Offices of Carroll Rhodes, Hazlehurst, MS, Jeremy Blake Esterkin PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff Mississippi State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Casey Katharine Smith PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Garrett Muscatel PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Ari J. Savitzky PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Kelsey A. Miller PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Ming Cheung PHV, Pro Hac Vice, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc., New York, NY, Celina Antonellis PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Boston, MA, Jaclyn Unis Whittaker PHV, Pro Hac Vice, John Patrick Lavelle, Jr., PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Javon Davis PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Ezra D. Rosenberg PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Jennifer Nwachukwu PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Marlin David Rollins-Boyd PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Patricia Jia Yan PHV, Pro Hac Vice, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Washington, DC, Jon Greenbaum PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Justice Legal Strategies, PLLC, Washington, DC, Drew Cleary Jordan PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Washington, DC, Joshua F. Tom, McKenna E. Raney-Gray, ACLU of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, Paloma Wu, Mississippi Center for Justice, Jackson, MS, Robert B. McDuff, The Law Office of Robert McDuff, Jackson, MS, Jeremy Blake Esterkin PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs Dr. Andrea Wesley, Dr. Joseph Wesley, Robert Evans, Gary Fredericks, Pamela Hamner.

Celina Antonellis PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Boston, MA, Garrett Muscatel PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Ari J. Savitzky PHV, Pro Hac Vice, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc., New York, NY, Jaclyn Unis Whittaker PHV, Pro Hac Vice, John Patrick LaVelle, Jr., PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Javon Davis PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Ezra D. Rosenberg PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Patricia Jia Yan PHV, Pro Hac Vice, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Washington, DC, Drew Cleary Jordan PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Washington, DC, Joshua F. Tom, McKenna E. Raney-Gray, ACLU of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, Paloma Wu, Mississippi Center for Justice, Jackson, MS, Robert B. McDuff, The Law Office of Robert McDuff, Jackson, MS, Carroll Edward Rhodes, Law Offices of Carroll Rhodes, Hazlehurst, MS, Jeremy Blake Esterkin PHV, Pro Hac Vice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs Barbara Finn, Otho Barnes, Shirlinda Robertson, Sandra Smith, Deborah Hulitt, Rodesta Tumblin, Dr. Kia Jones, Marcelean Arrington, Victoria Robertson.

Michael B. Wallace, Charles E. Cowan, Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway, PA, Jackson, MS, for Intervenor Defendant Mississippi Republican Executive Committee.

Tommie S. Cardin, Brian Parker Berry, P. Ryan Beckett, J. Dillon Pitts, Butler Snow, LLP, Ridgeland, MS, Rex M. Shannon, III, Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Jackson, MS, for Defendants.

Before Southwick, Circuit Judge, Jordan, Chief District Judge, and Ozerden, District Judge.


The Mississippi State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and numerous individual black Mississippi voters brought this suit against the Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners and other Mississippi officials. They challenged the State's 2022 redistricting maps for electing members of the state...

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