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