Chancellor Russell T. Perkins, Chief Judge (Middle Grand Division)
Judge J. Michael Sharp (Eastern Grand Division)
Chancellor Steven W. Maroney (Western Grand Division)
Plaintiffs, three Tennessee voters, have challenged the state House and Senate redistricting maps enacted by the General Assembly. Plaintiffs argue that the House redistricting map violates Article II, Section 5 of the Tennessee Constitution as interpreted by the Tennessee Supreme Court in State ex rel. Lockert v. Crowell, 631 S.W.2d, 702 (Tenn. 1982), by crossing more county lines than is necessary to create substantially equal districts by dividing 30 counties. Plaintiffs also argue that the Senate redistricting map violates Article II, Section 3’s requirement that senatorial districts in the same county have consecutively numbered districts by creating non-consecutively numbered districts in Davidson County.