Dechert Team Files Amicus Curiae Brief in US Supreme Court Redistricting Case, Moore v. Harper

On October 26, 2022, a cross-office team at Dechert, along with Harvard Law School Professor Guy-Uriel Charles and T. Alora Thomas-Lundborg of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, filed an amicus brief on behalf of law professors from law schools across North America whose research focuses on democracy and race in the Moore v. Harper case before the United States Supreme Court. The case concerns the so-called “independent state legislature theory”, which the amicus brief argues would undermine the constitutional system of checks and balances and federalism, defy the history and tradition of state court review, and without a limiting principle, would throw election regulation and administration into chaos. Click here to read the amicus brief.

Oral argument in Moore v. Harper is scheduled for December 7, 2022.

The Dechert team was comprised of Neil Steiner (TIS-NY), Angela Liu (TIS-CHI), Gregory Luib (AT-WAS), Jacob Porter (TIS-AUS), Stefanie Tubbs (PLMT-PHL), Christopher Merken (TIS-PHL), Jennifer Harchut (AT-PHL), Tiffany Lewis (TIS-NY) and Sara Medina (TIS-CHI).

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