Benisek v. Lamone

Benisek v. Lamone
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 28, 2018 Decided June 18, 2018
Full case name	O. John Benisek, et al. v. Linda H. Lamone, Administrator, Maryland State Board of Elections, et al.
Docket no.	17-333
Citations	585 U.S. ____ (more) 138 S. Ct. 1942; 201 L. Ed. 2d 398
Case history
Prior	Motion to dismiss granted, Benisek v. Mack, 11 F. Supp. 3d 516 (D. Md. 2014); affirmed, 584 F. App'x 140 (4th Cir. 2014); cert. granted, 135 S. Ct. 2805 (2015); remanded to 3-judge panel, Shapiro v. McManus, No. 14-990, 577 U.S. ___ (2015); on remand, Benisek v. Lamone, 241 F. Supp. 3d 566 (D. Md. 2017); injunction denied, 266 F. Supp. 3d 799 (D. Md. 2017).
Holding
The District Court's denial of injunctive relief against the use of Maryland's 2011 redistricting maps was not an abuse of discretion.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch
Case opinion
Per curiam

Lamone v. Benisek
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 26, 2019 Decided June 27, 2019
Full case name	Linda H. Lamone, Administrator, Maryland State Board of Elections, et al. v. O. John Benisek, et al.
Docket no.	18-726
Citations	588 U.S. ____ (more)
Holding
Partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh
Case opinions
Majority	Roberts, joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh
Dissent	Kagan, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor

Benisek v. Lamone, 585 U.S. ____ (2018), and Lamone v. Benisek, 588 U.S. ____ (2019), were a pair of decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States in a case dealing with the topic of partisan gerrymandering arising from the 2011 Democratic party-favored redistricting of Maryland. At the center of the cases was Maryland's 6th district which historically favored Republicans and which was redrawn in 2011 to shift the political majority to become Democratic via vote dilution.^[1] Affected voters filed suit, stating that the redistricting violated their right of representation under Article One, Section Two of the U.S. Constitution and freedom of association of the First Amendment.