Related court documents

For your convenience, the library has gathered the following selection of court documents related to:

Greg Abbott v. Shannon Perez, Emergency application for stay or injunctive relief pending appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States (No. 17A225, Plan C235, Congressional redistricting).

The full docket for each case is not represented on this page.

17A225 - U.S. Supreme Court
Abbott v. Perez
08/25/2017 Emergency application for stay

17-586 and 17-626 - U.S. Supreme Court
Greg Abbott v. Shannon Perez (Redistricting, Texas House and Congressional districts)
06/26/2018 Opinion
04/04/2018 Overview -- Brennan Center

No. 5:11-cv-00360 - U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
Shannon Perez et al. v. Texas (lead case)
08/24/2017 Order on Plan H358
08/18/2017 Notice of appeal
08/15/2017 Order on plan C235
07/03/2017 Rodriguez plaintiffs' pre-trial brief
07/03/2017 Defendants' pretrial disclosures & bench brief
04/20/2017 Order on plan H283
01/02/2017 Amended non U.S. plaintiffs' joint motion for entry of judgment
12/30/2016 Non U.S. plaintiffs' joint motion for entry of judgment
07/29/2016 Motion for scheduling conference
11/06/2015 Order
10/14/2015 Conditional motion
02/25/2014 Plaintiffs' sixth amended complaint
11/22/2013 Defendants' motion to modify the court's legislative privilege order dated August 1, 2011
10/18/2013 Scheduling order
09/24/2013 Order granting the United States' motion to intervene
09/09/2013 Fourth amended complaint
09/06/2013 Order granting parties' request to amend pleadings regarding 2011 and 2013 plans and denying Defendants' motion to dismiss (includes order allowing use of 2013 maps in 2014 Texas primaries).
08/22/2013 United States' motion to intervene
08/05/2013 Defendants' response to plaintiffs and the United States regarding § 3(c) of the Voting Rights Act
08/05/2013 Response to state's § 3(c) brief and state's motion to dismiss 2011 challenges as moot
07/25/2013 Statement of interest of the United States with respect to § 3(C) of the Voting Rights Act
07/01/2013 Order
06/28/2013 Defendants' motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
06/27/2013 Order requesting all parties appear for a status conference Monday, July 1, 2013.
04/28/2013 Plaintiff MALC's advisory to the court regarding issues raised by state's efforts to adopt court's interim plan as state's permanent redistricting plan
02/11/2013 Order requesting all parties file a written advisory as to how the Court would need to proceed under specific scenarios, with a realistic time estimate
09/05/2012 LULAC's emergency application for stay of interim Congressional redistricting plan PLANC235 for the 2012 general election
09/05/2012 LULAC's motion to stay implementation of interim congressional redistricting plan PLANC235
03/01/2012 Order, residency, schedule for reopened filing period and general primary (May 29 primary and July 31 runoff), order adopting court-ordered interim House plan PLANH309, interim Senate plan PLANS172, and interim Congressional plan PLANC235.
02/20/2012 Plaintiff MALC's post hearing brief (clarifying position on Congressional district CD-35)
02/16/2012 Joint advisory of Texas Latino Redistricting Task Force, MALC, Congressman Cuellar, and Congressman Canseco regarding interim Congressional districts (CD-33 and CD-35 in Plan C226)
02/13/2012 State of Texas advisory to the court regarding interim maps (settlement status)
02/13/2012 State of Texas response brief on issues relating to interim redistricting plans ('Congressional District 25 is not an ability-to-elect district in the benchmark plan')
02/13/2012 Joint response brief of Rodriguez (Travis County), Quesada, Wendy Davis, Texas NAACP, African-American Congressional plaintiffs and LULAC on interim map issues (Congressional District 25 as 'coalition district' or 'crossover district')
02/13/2012 NAACP and African-American Congressional advisory to the court, analysis of Congressional Plan C226
02/10/2012 Order regarding settlement negotiations before hearing on February 14-15
02/06/2012 Order, interim map agreement released February 6, 'parties should continue their negotiations.'
02/06/2012 Texas Latino Redistricting Task Force advisory to the court regarding new proposed plans and identification of issues
02/06/2012 MALC's advisory regarding districts at issue
02/06/2012 Rodriguez (Travis County), Quesada, Wendy Davis, LULAC, Texas NAACP, and African-American Congressional plaintiffs' joint advisory on status of legal challenges.
02/06/2012 State of Texas advisory regarding interim redistricting plans (Plans H303, C226, and S167).
02/02/2012 Order, interim map and briefing schedule - Feb. 10 briefs and proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law, Feb. 15 hearing
02/01/2012 Texas Democratic Party’s advisory to the court concerning election timing
01/27/2012 Order, summary of January 27 status conference, 'if we have no agreed-upon set of interim maps by February 6, there will be no April 3, 2012 primary', vacating deadlines in the December 16, 2011 order
01/24/2012 Plaintiff-intervenor Congressman Joe Barton's motion to intervene
01/23/2012 Order, January 27 status conference, February 6 interim maps deadline, 'serious consideration' to split primary
01/23/2012 Joint response of redistricting plaintiffs to state's motion for reconsideration (in opposition to Jan. 30 map deadline), Texas Democratic Party's advisory to the court
01/20/2012 Order, February 1 status conference
01/20/2012 State of Texas motion for reconsideration of the Court's order of January 20, 2012 (status conference)
12/16/2011 Order for April 3 primary and June 5 runoff, residency by February 1, schedule for reopened filing period and general primary
12/14/2011 Order, residency, schedule - candidate filing deadline extended to Dec. 19
12/13/2011 Congressional letter for unified/single primary
12/12/2011 Defendants' motion to stay candidate filing and administrative deadlines for elections for the Texas House of Representatives, Texas Senate, and Texas's Congressional districts, Exhibit - U.S. Supreme Court stay, Proposed order
12/11/2011 Order and status conference on December 13, 2011
12/11/2011 League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) agreed plaintiff's motion to confirm single primary for 2012 elections
12/02/2011 Supplemental opinion
11/29/2011 Amended notice of appeal
11/27/2011 Notices of appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
11/25/2011 Joint advisory to thecourt of plaintiff-intervenors the Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches, Bill Lawson, Juanita Wallace, Howard Jefferson, and Congresspersons Eddie Bernice Johnson, Alexander Green, and Sheila Jackson Lee
11/25/2011 Defendants' objections to the court's proposed interim Congressional plans, Exhibits B-C (District 23/35 racially polarized voting analysis) and amended Exhibit A (letters from legislators and congresspersons); Order denying
11/23/2011 Court-ordered interim Congressional plan PLANC220, Order adopting PLANC220 as the interim plan for the districts used to elect members in 2012 to the United States House of Representatives, Dissent
11/23/2011 Defendants' motion to stay implementation of interim House redistricting plan pending appeal, Order denying motion
11/22/2011 Court-ordered House interim plan PLANH302, Order regarding interim plan for the districts used to elect members in 2012 to the Texas House of Representatives, Dissent
11/18/2011 State of Texas objections to court's proposed interim House plans, Exhibits (with letters and e-mails of members regarding the proposed House districts)
11/17/2011 Federal court proposed state House plan PLANH298, Judge Smith proposed state House plan PLANH299, federal court proposed state Senate plan PLANS163
11/17/2011 Order for parties to access proposed state House plans and file any comments and/or objections by noon, Friday, November 18, 2011
11/04/2011 Order and new candidate filing schedule for 2012 elections
09/30/2011 Order and amended order, interim court-drawn plans, 2012 elections, proposed plans due October 17, 2011
09/29/2011 Order enjoining the implementation of voting changes, Plaintiff's motion for temporary restraining order and supporting memorandum of law
08/31/2011 Proposed joint pretrial order, Exhibit lists of plaintiffs and defendants
08/08/2011 Partially unopposed Quesada plaintiffs' motion to stay proceedings and/or postpone trial date (Voting Rights Act, Section 5 preclearance)
08/05/2011 Motion by Congressman Lamar Smith et al. to prevent disclosure of written communications, Supplemental order (23 Republican members of Congress, redistricting e-mails)
08/01/2011 Order denying defendants' motion for protective order
07/27/2011 Consolidation and scheduling order, amended pleadings and joinder of parties due by Aug. 1, 2011
07/19/2011 Motion to intervene of the Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches
07/13/2011 Order granting Texas Democratic Party motion to intervene, Texas Democratic Party and Boyd Richie's cross-claim
07/06/2011 Order of consolidation with Nos 5:11-cv-00361 and 5:11-cv-00490, Amended scheduling order (Sept. 6, 2011 hearing)
05/09/2011 Complaint

No. 14-50042 - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Wendy Davis v. Rick Perry (on appeal from Case No. 5:11-cv-00788)
03/31/2015 Appellee's petition for rehearing en banc
03/17/2015 Opinion
06/09/2014 Appellee's brief
05/06/2014 Appellants' brief

No. 5:11-cv-00788 - U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division
Wendy Davis v. Rick Perry (lead case)
01/08/2014 Order
10/04/2013 Defendants' response to Davis plaintiffs' opposed motion for interim award of attorney's fees and expenses
09/24/2013 Davis plaintiffs' opposed motion for interim award of attorneys' fees and expenses; LULAC plaintiffs' opposed motion for award of attorneys' fees and expenses
09/04/2013 Final judgment
12/12/2011 GOP 2012 election schedule proposal, Defendant Steve Munisteri's (Republican Party of Texas) advisory to the court regarding filing for and the dates of the 2012 general primary and associated conventions
11/23/2011 Defendants' motion to stay implementation of interim Senate redistricting plan pending appeal, Order and amended order denying motion
11/22/2011 Court-ordered Senate interim plan PLANS164, Order regarding the interim plan for the districts used to elect members in 2012 to the Texas Senate
11/18/2011 Davis plaintiffs' and LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) plaintiffs' advisory to the court regarding proposed interim plan S163
11/18/2011 Defendants' objections to the court's proposed interim Senate plans, Exhibits (with letters and e-mails of members regarding the proposed Senate districts, PLANS163)
09/22/2011 Complaint, three-judge court requested

No. 11-713 et al. - U.S. Supreme Court
Rick Perry v. Shannon Perez; Rick Perry v. Wendy Davis
01/20/2012 Opinion and concurring opinion
01/09/2012 Oral argument transcript
01/01/2012 Republican Party of Texas advisory to the U.S. Supreme Court
12/30/2011 U.S. Supreme Court order, oral argument schedule, granting motion of the Solicitor General; Brief of the United States as amicus curiae
12/21/2011 Brief for appellants
12/21/2011 Brief for appellees Texas Latino Redistricting Task Force et al., Mexican American Legislative Caucus et al., and Shannon Perez et al. and supplemental joint appendix
12/09/2011 Applications for stay granted, Briefs due December 21, Reply briefs due January 3, 2012, Oral argument set for January 9, 2012
12/01/2011 Respondents Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC), Shannon Perez et al., Texas State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)'s joint brief in opposition to emergency application for stay of interlocutory order directing implementation of interim Texas House of Representatives redistricting plan
12/01/2011 Texas Democratic Party and Boyd Richie's consolidated response to emergency applications for stay of interlocutory orders
11/30/2011 Emergency application to U.S. Supreme Court for stay of the court-ordered Congressional plan
11/28/2011 Emergency applications to U.S. Supreme Court for stay of the court-ordered Texas House and Texas Senate plans, Appendices (proposal for split/bifurcated primary March/May, PDF p. 31).

No. 5:11-cv-00361 - U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division
Mexican American Legislative Caucus, Texas House of Representatives (MALC) v. Texas (consolidated case)
06/10/2011 League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) plaintiff-intervenor's complaint
05/09/2011 Plaintiff's original complaint

17-626 - U.S. Supreme Court
Greg Abbott v. Shannon Perez (Redistricting, Texas House districts)
12/13/2017 Reply on jurisdiction

No. 5:11-cv-00490 - U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division
Texas Latino Redistricting Task Force et al. v. Rick Perry (consolidated case)
06/17/2011 Complaint

No. 5:11-cv-00592 - U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division
Margarita V. Quesada et al. v. Rick Perry (consolidated case)
07/15/2011 Complaint

SA-11-cv-360 - United States District court for the Western District of Texas
Shannon Perez v. Greg Abbott (Congressional Redistricting)
03/10/2017 Order, including dissenting opinion