Larios v. Cox
United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
300 F. Supp. 2d 1320 (2004)
- Written by Kelly Simon, JD
Facts
The 2000 US Census determined that Georgia’s population was 8,163,453 individuals. From 1990 to 2000, the population of northern Georgia grew at a faster rate than the population of southern Georgia. The areas of fastest growth were Republican-leaning areas. In 2001 and 2002, redistricting plans were enacted for the Georgia state legislature. The Georgia redistricting plan created districts with a deviation from population equality of 9.98 percent without justifying such a deviation. Sara Larios (plaintiff) sued Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox (defendant), challenging the redistricting plan as unconstitutional on multiple grounds. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia held most of the claims in abeyance; however, the court considered Larios’s claim that the plan violated the one-person, one-vote principle of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Per curiam)
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