{"id":284,"date":"2024-03-24T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T17:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/florida\/work\/common-cause-florida-v-byrd\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:02:20","slug":"common-cause-florida-v-byrd","status":"publish","type":"work","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/florida\/fr\/work\/cause-commune-floride-v-byrd\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Florida c. Byrd"},"template":"","class_list":["post-284","work","type-work","status-publish","hentry","work_type-litigation"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Common Cause and partners are challenging a discriminatory congressional voting map enacted in Florida. ","featured_image":"","work_type":175,"related_issues":[62,402],"location":12},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Common Cause Florida, Fair Districts Now, la Conf\u00e9rence de l'\u00c9tat de Floride de la NAACP et des \u00e9lecteurs de toute la Floride ont intent\u00e9 une action en justice devant un tribunal f\u00e9d\u00e9ral, arguant que la l\u00e9gislature de Floride et le gouverneur DeSantis avaient d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9ment pratiqu\u00e9 une discrimination raciale, en violation des 14e et 15e amendements de la Constitution am\u00e9ricaine, lors de l'\u00e9laboration de la carte \u00e9lectorale actuelle de l'\u00c9tat. Le proc\u00e8s, qui a dur\u00e9 deux semaines, a d\u00e9but\u00e9 le 26 septembre 2023 \u00e0 Tallahassee et s'est conclu le 3 octobre 2023. Le coll\u00e8ge de trois juges a rendu une d\u00e9cision le 27 mars 2024\u00a0: a confirm\u00e9 la carte discriminatoire du Congr\u00e8s de l'\u00c9tat<\/a>. Cette affaire \u00e9tait autrefois connue sous le nom de\u00a0Common Cause Florida c. Lee.\u00a0<\/i>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"En savoir plus sur nos plaignants individuels<\/a> Voir les mises \u00e0 jour en direct du proc\u00e8s<\/a>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

Case Updates<\/h3>\r\nMarch 27, 2024:<\/strong> The three-judge panel released a decision in the case, upholding the state's discriminatory congressional map. See our statement here<\/a>. Find the decision here<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOctober 3, 2023:<\/strong> The trial in this case concluded in Tallahassee.\r\n\r\nSeptember 26, 2023:<\/strong> The trial in this case began in Tallahassee. Get updates from the trial here<\/a>. Read our release here<\/a>.\r\n\r\nAugust 18, 2023:\u00a0<\/b>The court denied the defendants' motion for partial summary judgment, finding that the plaintiffs have standing to bring this challenge against Florida's congressional map. The case moves to trial on September 26, 2023.\u00a0Read our release here<\/a>.\r\n\r\nFebruary 7, 2023:<\/strong> Plaintiffs Common Cause FL, Fair Districts Now, the Florida State Conference of the NAACP, and current individual plaintiffs were joined by additional individual plaintiffs in filing a\u00a0second amended complaint<\/a> alleging that the Governor and Legislature engaged in intentional discrimination in congressional redistricting. The second amended complaint makes clear that line drawing by Governor DeSantis and the state legislature engaged in racial discrimination to form congressional districts, and that any argument that race was not considered is pretextual.\u00a0Read the complaint here.<\/a>\r\n\r\nNovember 8, 2022:<\/strong> The three-judge panel denied Defendants\u2019 motion to dismiss our complaint, which argues that Florida\u2019s current congressional maps were created as a product of intentional racial discrimination in violation of the 14th<\/sup>\u00a0and 15th<\/sup>\u00a0Amendments. The court is satisfied that we have presented the factual allegations on \u201call of [the] signposts\u201d necessary to support our arguments. This case now moves forward to discovery and eventual trial.\u00a0Read our release here.<\/a>\r\n\r\nMay 11, 2022:\u00a0<\/strong>The three-judge panel granted Plaintiffs' motion to amend the complaint. The Amended Complaint argues that Governor DeSantis and the Florida Legislature engaged in intentional discrimination in violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments.\u00a0 Read the release here.<\/a>\r\n\r\nApril 29, 2022<\/strong>: Plaintiffs Common Cause FL, Fair Districts Now, individual plaintiffs were joined by Florida State Conference of the NAACP in filing an amended complaint arguing<\/a> that Governor DeSantis and the Florida Legislature engaged in intentional discrimination in violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments. The amended complaint lays out the history of racial discrimination in Florida and specific discriminatory actions that Governor DeSantis and the Florida legislature took in crafting the new congressional map, including Governor DeSantis's comments around CD5, an historically Black district in northern Florida.\r\n\r\nApril 25, 2022<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>The Court issued an Order to Show Cause that requires Plaintiffs to file a response as to why the case shouldn't be dismissed for mootness.\r\n\r\nApril 22, 2022: <\/strong>After Governor DeSantis signed a new congressional map into law, Defendant Secretary of State Lee filed a motion to dismiss the case as moot<\/a>.\r\n\r\nApril 18, 2022: <\/strong>\u00a0Plaintiffs filed their proposed congressional district plan<\/a> and brief<\/a>, based on Senate Map 8060, which complies with all redistricting requirements under federal and state law, including the Florida Fair Districts Amendment. Plaintiffs also filed an expert analysis<\/a> of the map which also finds that the proposed plan does not favor or disfavor any political party or incumbent and does not diminish the right of minority voters to elect their candidates of choice.\r\n\r\nApril 6, 2022:\u00a0<\/strong>Judge Winsor denied Plaintiff's motion to recuse<\/a> and granted the motion to intervene by a group of individual Florida voters represented by the Elias Law Group.\r\n\r\nMarch 25, 2022:<\/strong> Plaintiffs filed a motion requesting that Judge Winsor recuse himself from the case given his extensive advocacy and litigation efforts on behalf of the Florida House of Representatives during Florida\u2019s last redistricting cycle. Read the motion and brief here.<\/a>\r\n\r\nMarch 11, 2022<\/b>: Following the initial failure of the Florida Legislature and Governor Ron DeSantis to agree upon a congressional map, Common Cause Florida, Fair Districts Now, and a group of individual plaintiffs from across Florida filed a federal lawsuit in the Northern District of Florida. Plaintiffs asked the federal court to step in to ensure that Florida voters could vote in congressional districts of equal population based on 2020 Census data as required by the US Constitution. Read the complaint here<\/a>.\r\n\r\nFebruary 1, 2022<\/b>: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis requested an advisory opinion from the Florida Supreme Court on whether he would be required to veto certain configurations of congressional district 5. Common Cause Florida and Fair Districts Now filed a response to the Governor\u2019s request arguing that the Florida Supreme Court should not take jurisdiction because there was no final map for the Court to review and any decision from the court would be impermissible intervention in the legislative process. Read our brief here.<\/a> The Supreme Court declined to take jurisdiction over the advisory opinion, leaving the question of the constitutionality of congressional district 5 for another day. Read the Florida Supreme Court opinion here.<\/a>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

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