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Gonidakis v. Ohio Redistricting Comm’n

Last Updated Mar 24, 2023
Case No. 2:22-cv-00773 (S.D. Ohio)
Cycle 2020

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A federal court challenge to state legislative districts in light of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Feb. 7, 2022, decision in League of Women Voters of Ohio v. Ohio Redistricting Comm’n.  That state decision invalidated as a partisan gerrymander the state commission’s second attempt at drawing state legislative maps; plaintiffs claimed that this left in place maps from the 2010 cycle that were malapportioned after the 2020 census.

On Feb. 24, 2022, the state commission adopted a third state legislative plan, struck once more as a partisan gerrymander by the Ohio Supreme Court on Mar. 16, 2022.  With the filing deadline for legislative primaries already past, the federal plaintiffs sought to have the federal court reinstate that Feb. 24 plan.  And several African-American voters (the Simon intervenors) intervened, focusing on the Youngstown area, to challenge the commission’s process for state legislative districts under the Voting Rights Act, as well as the process to draw a remedial congressional map after the original map had been struck by the state Supreme Court in Adams v. DeWine and League of Women Voters of Ohio v. DeWine.

On Mar. 29, 2022, the state commission adopted a fourth state legislative plan, struck once more as a partisan gerrymander by the Ohio Supreme Court on Apr. 14, 2022.

On Apr. 20, 2022, the three-judge federal court determined that because the Ohio Secretary of State had already begun implementing the third (Feb. 24) state legislative map, that map would govern 2022 elections (with the primary moved to Aug. 2) absent state implementation of a valid map or alternative process by May 28.  On May 27, the three-judge federal court confirmed that order.  All other relief with respect to the 2022 cycle was denied.

History

Case filings, starting with most recent court
    Name Last Modified
Document icon Rev. Simon et al. complaint Mar 23, 2022
Document icon Gonidakis et al. supp. complaint (incl. exhs.) Mar 21, 2022
Document icon Gonidakis et al. motion for TRO Mar 21, 2022
Document icon SOS response (incl. exhs.) Mar 22, 2022
Document icon Bennett et al. opposition (incl. exhs.) Mar 23, 2022
Document icon LWVOH et al. opposition (incl. exhs.) Mar 23, 2022
Document icon Ohio Organizing Collab. et al. response (incl. exhs.) Mar 23, 2022
Document icon Rev. Simon et al. response Mar 22, 2022
Document icon Dem. comm'rs opposition Mar 23, 2022
Document icon Reply Mar 24, 2022
Document icon Order holding TRO in abeyance Mar 25, 2022
Document icon SOS response (incl. exhs.) Mar 28, 2022
Highlighted document Document icon Order denying TRO as moot Mar 24, 2023
Document icon LWVOH et al. motion to dismiss Mar 29, 2022
Document icon Gonidakis et al. opposition Mar 29, 2022
Document icon Order denying motion as moot Mar 24, 2023
Document icon Dem. comm'rs motion to dismiss Mar 29, 2022
Document icon Order denying motion as moot Mar 24, 2023
Document icon Rev. Simon et al. motion for class cert. Mar 29, 2022
Document icon Rep. comm'rs opposition Apr 19, 2022
Document icon Reply May 4, 2022
Document icon Order denying motion Mar 24, 2023
Document icon Rev. Simon et al. motion for leg. TRO (incl. exhs.) Mar 29, 2022
Document icon Opinion denying motion May 12, 2022
Document icon Rev. Simon et al. motion for cong. TRO (incl. exhs.) Mar 31, 2022
Document icon Gonidakis et al. response Apr 7, 2022
Document icon SOS opposition (incl. exhs.) Apr 7, 2022
Document icon Rep. comm'rs opposition Apr 7, 2022
Document icon Reply (incl. exhs.) Apr 8, 2022
Highlighted document Document icon Order denying cong. TRO Apr 12, 2022
Document icon Gonidakis et al. 2d motion for prelim. inj. Mar 23, 2022
Document icon SOS response Mar 25, 2022
Document icon Bennett et al. opposition (incl. exhs.) Mar 25, 2022
Document icon LWVOH et al. opposition (incl. exhs.) Mar 25, 2022
Document icon Ohio Organizing Collab. et al. opposition (incl. exhs.) Mar 25, 2022
Document icon Rev. Simon. et al. opposition (incl. exhs.) Mar 24, 2022
Document icon Dem. comm'rs opposition Mar 25, 2022
Document icon Reply Mar 28, 2022
Highlighted document Document icon Notice of 4th leg. plan Mar 29, 2022
Document icon Bennett et al. exhibits from PI hearing Mar 30, 2022
Document icon Transcript of PI hearing Mar 30, 2022
Document icon Gonidakis post-hearing brief re PI (incl. exhs.) Apr 6, 2022
Document icon SOS post-hearing brief (incl. exhs.) Apr 6, 2022
Document icon Bennett et al. post-hearing brief (incl. exh.) Apr 6, 2022
Document icon LWVOH et al. post-hearing brief (incl. exhs.) Apr 6, 2022
Document icon Dem. comm'rs post-hearing brief Apr 6, 2022
Document icon Gonidakis et al. response (incl. exhs.) Apr 11, 2022
Document icon SOS response Apr 11, 2022
Document icon Bennett et al. response Apr 11, 2022
Document icon LWVOH et al. response (incl. exhs.) Apr 11, 2022
Document icon Ohio Organizing Collab. et al. response (incl. exhs.) Apr 11, 2022
Document icon Rev. Simon et al. response Apr 8, 2022
Document icon Dem. comm'rs response Apr 11, 2022
Highlighted document Document icon Opinion setting Feb. 24 map as default Apr 20, 2022
Document icon Ohio Organizing Collab. et al. motion for prelim. inj. (incl. exhs.) Apr 6, 2022
Document icon Order denying motion as moot Mar 24, 2023
Document icon Rev. Simon et al. motion to alter judgment Apr 25, 2022
Document icon Opinion denying motion May 12, 2022
Highlighted document Document icon Order ordering use of Feb. 24 map May 27, 2022
Document icon Rev. Simon et al. motion to alter judgment May 24, 2022
Document icon SOS opposition Jun 14, 2022
Document icon Gonidakis et al. opposition Jun 14, 2022
Document icon Rep. comm'rs opposition Jun 14, 2022
Document icon Order denying motion as moot Mar 24, 2023
Document icon LWVOH et al. motion to modify order May 27, 2022
Document icon Order denying motion as moot Mar 24, 2023
Document icon Rev. Simon et al. notice of appeal Jun 6, 2022
Document icon Rev. Simon et al. motion to stay pending appeal Jun 6, 2022
Document icon Gonidakis et al. opposition Jun 27, 2022
Document icon SOS opposition Jun 27, 2022
Document icon Rep. comm'rs opposition (incl. exhs.) Jun 7, 2022
Document icon Order denying motion as moot Mar 24, 2023

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