Donald Page v. Larry Bartels’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

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1. “Given the potentially disruptive effects that our actions could have on New Jersey’s electoral process, it is incumbent upon us to articulate our disposition of this appeal with surgical accuracy. Our exact disposition is as follows: We will vacate the District Court’s April 16, 2001 order, and remand the case to the District Court, so that a district court of three judges, as specified in 28 U.S.C. § 2284 , can be convened to hear both the Voting Rights Act and the constitutional challenges brought by Plaintiffs. With respect to interim relief, the temporary stay issued on April 17, 2001 will expire at its scheduled time, April 24, 2001 at noon. We will grant no further interim relief in this matter. We note, however, that neither the District Court, acting as a single judge, nor the district court of three judges that will be convened, is foreclosed from acting (and issuing interim relief), provided that they comply with the limitations on their authority imposed by 28 U.S.C. § 2284 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 144 F. Supp. 2d 346 - Page v. Bartels

2. “We conclude that because statutory Voting Rights Act challenges to statewide legislative apportionment are generally inextricably intertivined with constitutional challenges to such apportionment, those claims should be considered a single ‘action’ within the meaning of § 2284(a). Thus, when a single district judge is presented with both types of claims, he or she may not resolve the Voting Rights Act issues in isolation while reserving the constitutional claims to a three-judge district court; rather, the single district judge should adhere to the limitations on his authority imposed by § 2284(b)(3).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 148 F. Supp. 2d 443 - Robertson v. Bartels

3. “the legislative history of the 1976 revisions to 28 U.S.C. § 2284 clearly demonstrates that Congress was concerned less with the source of the law on which an apportionment challenge was based than on the unique importance of apportionment cases generally.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Thomas v. Bryant