Virginia House Of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill

139 S. Ct. 1945 (2019)

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Nature of the Case

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Facts

After the 2010 census, Virginia redrew legislative districts for the State's Senate and House of Delegates. Voters in the impacted House districts sued two state agencies and four election officials, charging that the redrawn districts were racially gerrymandered in violation of the Fourteenth Amendments Equal Protection Clause. The House of Delegates intervened as defendants, participating in the bench trial, on appeal to this Court, and at a second bench trial, where a three-judge District Court held that 11 of the districts were unconstitutionally drawn, enjoined Virginia from conducting elections for those districts before the adoption of a new plan, and gave the General Assembly several months to adopt that plan. Virginia's Attorney General announced that the State would not pursue an appeal to this Court. The House filed an appeal. The Attorney General moved to dismiss for lack of standing.