On February 6, 2018, the Supreme Court denied CLC's motion for an expedited oral argument. Justice Ginsburg and Justice Sotomayor would grant the motion.

On July 31, 2018, the Michigan State Supreme Court issued its opinion in the Michigan redistricting ballot initiative case. The Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's decision, allowing the redistricting measure to be voted on by Michigan's citizens in November, 2018.

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania entered an order in the Pennsylvania gaming industry campaign contribution restriction case. The court is striking down a Pennsylvania law that bars casino owners and others with a stake in the gambling industry from donating to political campaigns in the state.

The Supreme Court of the State of Washington entered an order in Seattle's public financing system case after finding that the case warrants direct review under the cited statute.

On Friday, January 4, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it was taking two partisan gerrymandering challenges, out of North Carolina and Maryland. Oral arguments were scheduled for March 2019.

On January 4th the Court issued an opinion and order granting in part and denying in part the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction.

The district court in Maine denied plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the results of the election conducted using Ranked Choice Voting. 

Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a split decision in this case. The district court had previously upheld all four provisions. In this decision, the judges upheld all but one of those provisions. 

The Court denied the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss and further declared it as moot. 

The Court denied Defendants' Motion to Dismiss and further classified it as moot. 

The Court issued this denial of the Plaintiffs' Motion to Stay. The Court stated that due to legal and factual differences between the Plaintiffs' claims and Whitford the Court noted that staying the proceedings would not advance the interests of those involved.

The Court issued this order that appointed a three-judge panel to preside over the case. 

On Jan. 9, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina granted full relief from the state's gerrymandered maps, in a victory for the state's voters.

Yesterday, a Seventh Circuit panel of judges unanimously affirmed the constitutionality of various Illinois contribution limits. CLC filed an amicus brief in this case earlier this year.

The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the district court in favor of the challenge to racial gerrymandering in Texas state house district 90. The Court reversed the district court’s ruling that two other districts intentionally discriminated against minority voters. Campaign Legal Center submitted an amicus brief with the National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in support of the lower court’s ruling for all three districts.

A court in Richmond determined that the state of Virginia illegally sorted voters into districts based on their race.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in Gill v. Whitford on June 18, 2018.

District Court decision

The Supreme Court in Virginia issued a decision upholding the eleven state legislative districts that were challenged as being in violation of the state constitution and prioritizing partisan criteria. Partisan gerrymandering is a threat to effective democracy and increasingly problematic.