Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill | |
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Argued March 18, 2019 Decided June 17, 2019 | |
Full case name | Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill |
Docket no. | 18-281 |
Citations | 587 U.S. ___ (more) 139 S. Ct. 1945; 204 L. Ed. 2d 305 |
Case history | |
Prior | Bethune-Hill v. Va. State Bd. of Elections, 326 F. Supp. 3d 128 (E.D. Va. 2018); probable jurisdiction noted, 136 S. Ct. 2406 (2016); affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded, Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Bd. of Elections, No. 15-680, 580 U.S. ___, 137 S. Ct. 788 (2017); ruling in favor of plaintiffs on remand, 326 F. Supp. 3d 128 (E.D. Va. 2018). |
Holding | |
The Virginia House of Delegates lacks standing to file this appeal, either representing the state’s interests or in its own right. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Ginsburg, joined by Thomas, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch |
Dissent | Alito, joined by Roberts, Breyer, Kavanaugh |
Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill, 587 U.S. ___ (2019), was a case argued before the United States Supreme Court on March 18, 2019, in which the Virginia House of Delegates appealed against the decision in 2018 by the district court that 11 of Virginia's voting districts were racially gerrymandered, and thus unconstitutional. The Court held the "Virginia House of Delegates lacks standing to file this appeal, either representing the state's interests or in its own right."[1] In other words, the court upheld the decision made by a federal district court ruling in June 2018 that 11 state legislative districts were an illegal racial gerrymander.[citation needed] This was following a previous (2017) case, Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Bd. of Elections.[2][3]
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