United States Supreme Court
Tennant v. W. Virginia Sec'y of State, 11–1184
In a challenge to the West Virginia's 2011 congressional redistricting plan as violating the "one person, one vote" principle, district court's judgment holding the plan "null and void" and enjoining the West Virginia's Secretary of State from implementing it, is reversed where the district court: 1) misapplied the standard for evaluating such challenges set out in Karcher v. Daggett; and 2) failed to afford appropriate deference to West Virginia's reasonable exercise of its political judgment.
Appellate Information
- Decided 09/25/2012
- Published 09/25/2012
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- United States Supreme Court