Dickson v. Chairman NC Senate Redistricting Committee, 366 N.C. 206 (2012)

June 14, 2012 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · No. 201P12
366 N.C. 206
MARGRET DICKSON, ALISHA CHISOLM, ETHEL CLARK, MATTHEW A. MCLEAN, MELISSA LEE ROLLIZO, C. DAVID GANTT, VALARIA TRUITT, ALICE GRAHAM UNDERHILL, ARMIN JANCIS, REBECCA JUDGE, ZETTIE WILLIAMS, TRACEY BURNS-VAN, LAWRENCE CAMPBELL, O. EVERETTE ROBINSON, JR., LINDA GARROU, HAYES McNEILL, JIM SHAW, SIDNEY E. DUNSTON, ALMA ADAMS, STEVEN R. BOWDEN, JASON EDWARD COLEY, KARL BERTRAND FIELDS, PAMLYN STUBBS, DON VAUGHN, BOB ETHERIDGE, GEORGE GRAHAM, JR., THOMAS M. CHUMLEY, AISHA DEW, GENEAL GREGORY, VILMA LEAKE, RODNEY W. MOORE, BRENDA MARTIN STEVENSON, JANE WHITLEY, I.T. (TIM) VALENTINE, LOIS WATKINS, RICHARD JOYNER, MELVIN C. McLADWHORN, RANDALL S. JONES, BOBBY CHARLES TOWNSEND, ALBERT KIRBY, TERRENCE WILLIAMS, NORMAN C. CAMP, MARY H. POOLE, STEPHEN T. SMITH, PHILIP BADDOUR, ALICIA CHISHOLM, VALERIA TRUITT, ROBINSON O. EVERETT, JR. DOUGLAS A. WILSON, MARY F. POOLE v. CHAIRMAN NC SENATE REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN OF NC HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REDISTRICTING CO, CO CHAIRMAN 1 OF THE NC REDISTRICTING COMM., PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE NC SENATE, SPEAKER OF THE NC HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE, NC STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, NC STATE OF, CO CHAIRMAN 2 OF NC HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE REDISTRICTING CO; NC NAACP, LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF NC, DEMOCRACY NC, NC A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE, REVA McNAIR, MATTHEW DAVIS, TRESSIE STANTON, ANNE WILSON, SHARON HIGHTOWER, KAY BRANDON, GOLDIE WELLS, GRAY NEWMAN, JOEL FORD, YVONNE STAFFORD, ROBERT DAWKINS, SARA STOHLER, HUGH STOHLER, OCTAVIA RAINEY, CHARLES HODGE, MARSHALL HARDY, MARTHA GARDENHIGHT, BEN TAYLOR, KEITH RIVERS, ROMALLUS O. MURPHY, CARL WHITE, ROSA BRODIE, HERMAN LEWIS, CLARENCE ALBERT, EVESTER BAILEY, ALBERT BROWN, BENJAMIN LANIER, NC STATE CONFERENCE OF THE BRANCHES OF THE NAACP, GILBERT VAUGHN, AVIE LESTER, THEODORE MUCHITIENI, WILLIAM HOBBS, JIMMIE RAY HAWKINS, HORACE P. BULLOCK, ROBERTA WADDLE, CHRISTINA DAVIS McCOY, JAMES OLIVER WILLIAMS, MARGARET SPEED, LARRY LAVERNE BROOKS, CAROLINA S. ALLEN, WALTER ROGERS, SR., SHAWN MEACHAM, MARY GREEN BONAPARTE, SAMUEL LOVE, COURTNEY PATTERSON, WILLIE D. SINCLAIR, CARDES, HENRY BROWN, JR., JAMES STEPHENS v. NC STATE OF, NC STATE BD OF ELECTIONS THE, SPEAKER OF NC HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVES, PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE NC SENATE

MARGRET DICKSON, ALISHA CHISOLM, ETHEL CLARK, MATTHEW A. MCLEAN, MELISSA LEE ROLLIZO, C. DAVID GANTT, VALARIA TRUITT, ALICE GRAHAM UNDERHILL, ARMIN JANCIS, REBECCA JUDGE, ZETTIE WILLIAMS, TRACEY BURNS-VAN, LAWRENCE CAMPBELL, O. EVERETTE ROBINSON, JR., LINDA GARROU, HAYES McNEILL, JIM SHAW, SIDNEY E. DUNSTON, ALMA ADAMS, STEVEN R. BOWDEN, JASON EDWARD COLEY, KARL BERTRAND FIELDS, PAMLYN STUBBS, DON VAUGHN, BOB ETHERIDGE, GEORGE GRAHAM, JR., THOMAS M. CHUMLEY, AISHA DEW, GENEAL GREGORY, VILMA LEAKE, RODNEY W. MOORE, BRENDA MARTIN STEVENSON, JANE WHITLEY, I.T. (TIM) VALENTINE, LOIS WATKINS, RICHARD JOYNER, MELVIN C. McLADWHORN, RANDALL S. JONES, BOBBY CHARLES TOWNSEND, ALBERT KIRBY, TERRENCE WILLIAMS, NORMAN C. CAMP, MARY H. POOLE, STEPHEN T. SMITH, PHILIP BADDOUR, ALICIA CHISHOLM, VALERIA TRUITT, ROBINSON O. EVERETT, JR. DOUGLAS A. WILSON, MARY F. POOLE v. CHAIRMAN NC SENATE REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN OF NC HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REDISTRICTING CO, CO CHAIRMAN 1 OF THE NC REDISTRICTING COMM., PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE NC SENATE, SPEAKER OF THE NC HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE, NC STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, NC *207STATE OF, CO CHAIRMAN 2 OF NC HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE REDISTRICTING CO NC NAACP, LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF NC, DEMOCRACY NC, NC A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE, REVA McNAIR, MATTHEW DAVIS, TRESSIE STANTON, ANNE WILSON, SHARON HIGHTOWER, KAY BRANDON, GOLDIE WELLS, GRAY NEWMAN, JOEL FORD, YVONNE STAFFORD, ROBERT DAWKINS, SARA STOHLER, HUGH STOHLER, OCTAVIA RAINEY, CHARLES HODGE, MARSHALL HARDY, MARTHA GARDENHIGHT, BEN TAYLOR, KEITH RIVERS, ROMALLUS O. MURPHY, CARL WHITE, ROSA BRODIE, HERMAN LEWIS, CLARENCE ALBERT, EVESTER BAILEY, ALBERT BROWN, BENJAMIN LANIER, NC STATE CONFERENCE OF THE BRANCHES OF THE NAACP, GILBERT VAUGHN, AVIE LESTER, THEODORE MUCHITIENI, WILLIAM HOBBS, JIMMIE RAY HAWKINS, HORACE P. BULLOCK, ROBERTA WADDLE, CHRISTINA DAVIS McCOY, JAMES OLIVER WILLIAMS, MARGARET SPEED, LARRY LAVERNE BROOKS, CAROLINA S. ALLEN, WALTER ROGERS, SR., SHAWN MEACHAM, MARY GREEN BONAPARTE, SAMUEL LOVE, COURTNEY PATTERSON, WILLIE D. SINCLAIR, CARDES, HENRY BROWN, JR., JAMES STEPHENS v. NC STATE OF, NC STATE BD OF ELECTIONS THE, SPEAKER OF NC HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVES, PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE NC SENATE

From Wake County

*208No. 201P12

(Filed 14 June 2012)

ORDER

Defendants’ Motion for Temporary Stay and Petition for Writ of Supersedeas are allowed.

As to defendants’ notice of appeal filed 24 April 2012, the Court expedites hearing of the appeal, as follows:

The record on appeal shall be settled pursuant to the Rules of Appellate Procedure and filed with the Clerk of the Supreme Court on or before 1 June 2012.

Defendants’/appellants’ briefs shall be filed with this Court on or before 15 June 2012.

Plaintiffs’/appellees’ briefs shall be filed with this Court on or before 29 June 2012.

Any reply briefs shall be filed with this Court on or before 6 July 2012.

The matter is set for oral argument at 9:30 a.m. on 10 July 2012.

By order of the Court in Conference, this 11th day of May, 2012.

s/Jackson. J.

For the Court