Holt, J. Steele Olmstead, Robert Allen Schaeffer, and Roland Sanchez-Medina, Jr. (collectively, “Coalition Plaintiffs”), filed two complaints, one challenging the congressional apportionment plan and one challenging the Senate apportionment plan adopted after this Court invalidated the initial Senate plan. (R86:11,217-35; R87:11,357-74.) The remaining complaint, filed by Appellants Rene Romo, Benjamin Weaver, William Everett Warinner, Jessica Barrett, June Keener, Richard Quinn Boylan, and Bonita Agan (collectively, “Romo Plaintiffs,” and together with Coalition Plaintiffs, “Plaintiffs”), challenged the congressional plan only. (R1:5162.) The two congressional cases were consolidated for trial and are the subject of this appeal. (R7:855-56.) The Senate case has not been set for trial. The main defendants are the Florida Senate and its president and the Florida House of Representatives and its speaker (collectively, the “Legislature”). The Secretary of State and Attorney General are also nominal defendants, though they have largely taken no position on the merits of this litigation. The Florida NAACP intervened on behalf of the defendants. (R14:1894-95.) After the Legislature unsuccessfully fought Plaintiffs’ discovery requests for evidence of its communications and work product regarding the 2012 apportionment process (culminating in Apportionment IV, which largely rejected claims of legislative privilege) and non-party Republican political operatives unsuccessfully fought Plaintiffs’ discovery requests for their communications regarding the pro2

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