Breaking: FL Supreme Court Affirms Congressional Redistricting Map

League of Women Voters v. Detzner (with one Justice dissenting and one partially dissenting):

This case is before the Court for approval of a final congressional redistricting plan in accordance with the Fair Districts Amendment and in accordance with our previous opinion in League of Women Voters of Florida v. Detzner (Apportionment VII), 172 So. 3d 363 (Fla. 2015). We approve in full the trial court’s “Order Recommending Adoption of Remedial Map.” Our opinion today—the eighth concerning legislative or congressional apportionment during this decade since the adoption of the landmark Fair Districts Amendment—should bring much needed finality to litigation concerning this state’s congressional redistricting that has now spanned nearly four years in state courts. Accordingly, – 2 – the plan approved here shall be used in the 2016 congressional elections and thereafter until the next decennial redistricting.

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