Supreme Court of Colorado
Kathryn H. Hall Danny E. Stroud Dick R. Murphy, Ph.d. Mark D. Hillman Mark Baisley Shirley J. Seitz — Coats, J…
February 27, 20122012 Colo. LEXIS 106
Summary
The concurrence would affirm the district court's congressional redistricting plan for use in the 2012 general election because population changes made redistricting necessary, the General Assembly had not completed a plan in time, and the court's plan complied with federal law. It would not treat the existing court-ordered plan as permanently foreclosing the General Assembly from later redistricting. The dissent would instead conclude that the district court abused its discretion by giving insufficient weight to minimizing disruption of existing district lines.