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Opinion
Filed
April 24, 2019
Case
League of Women Voters of Penn v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Case status
Decided

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SCIRICA, Circuit Judge In 2017, the League of Women Voters and a group of Pennsylvania Democratic voters filed a state court lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania's 2011 congressional districting map. The suit alleged the state's Republican lawmakers drew the congressional map to entrench Republican power in Pennsylvania's congressional delegation and disadvantage Democratic voters. Plaintiffs contended the Republican…

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