Ohio Supreme Court Dismisses Congressional Redistricting Challenges

Brief Notice Without Comment From Court Quietly Ends 18-Month Legal Saga

This is the ‘March 2, 2022 Plan’ map of Ohio's 15 congressional districts that will be in place for the 2024 election cycle after the state's Supreme Court granted plaintiffs’ petitions to withdraw lawsuits challenging the Republican-drawn map. Ohio Redistricting Commission

As anticipated, the Ohio Supreme Court on Sept. 7 formally dismissed two legal challenges to the state’s post-2020 Census congressional district map, fixing them into place for the 2024 election cycle.

The dismissals were briefly noted without comment in a four-page ‘Case Announcements’ update from the Ohio Supreme Court issued two days after plaintiffs in Neiman v LaRose (pdf) and League of Women Voters of Ohio v Ohio Redistricting Commission (pdf) petitioned to drop their lawsuits.