United States Third Circuit

28 USC 2284 requires that a district court of three judges, rather than a single judge, entertain applications for preliminary injunctive relief challenging the constitutionality of voter reapportionment of any statewide legislative body.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/23/2001
• Decided 04/23/2001
• Published 04/24/2001

Judges

• Before BECKER, Chief Judge, GARTH and GREENBERG Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frederick L. Whitmer, (Argued), Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch, Morristown, NJ, Counsel for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John J. Farmer, Jr., Attorney General of New Jersey, Mark L. Fleming, Assistant Attorney General, Donna Kelly, (Argued), Deputy Attorney General, Pamela E. Gellert, Deputy Attorney General, Mark Turner Holmes, Deputy Attorney General, Office of Attorney General of New Jersey Department of Law & Public Safety Division of Law, Richard J. HughesJustice Complex, Trenton, NJ, Counsel for Appellees The Attorney General of New Jersey and the Secretary of State of New Jersey., Paul L. Smith, (Argued) Jenner & Block, Washington, DC, Robert Levy, Scarinci & Hollenbeck, LLC, Secaucus, NJ, Leon Sokol, Sokol, Behot & Fiorenzo, Hackensack, NJ, Counsel for Appellees Richard Codey, Sonia DelGado, Thomas Giblin, Louis Greenwald, Bonnie Watson-Coleman, and New Jersey Apportionment Commission., Robert L. Clifford, McElroy, Deutsch, & Mulvaney, Morristown, NJ, Counsel for Appellee Larry Bartels.