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Redistricting Litigation: An Overview of Legal, Statistical, and Case-Management Issues

Bruce M. Clarke, Robert Timothy Reagan
March 14, 2002

This monograph consists of an overview of the law of redistricting, a summary of statistical techniques frequently used in redistricting litigation, and a discussion of some of the major case management challenges presented by such cases. The legal overview focuses on Voting Rights Act, Equal Protection Clause, and one person-one vote cases. The Center prepared this monograph as a resource for judges assigned cases challenging legislative redistricting plans developed in response to the 2000 census.