WI: Group appealing decision to dismiss gerrymandering lawsuit [View all]

The business leaders who challenged Wisconsin’s congressional map as an “anti-competitive gerrymander” filed a notice of appeal with the state Supreme Court after a three-judge panel on Tuesday dismissed the suit.

Law Forward attorney Doug Poland, part of the team that represented the Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy, said it was the first such case ever filed in state court and “deserves to be heard.”

Meanwhile, state GOP Chair Brian Schimming hailed the ruling as another defeat for Dems seeking a new map.

Last month, a separate panel of circuit court judges dismissed a lawsuit challenging the map — which has helped produce a 6-2 GOP supermajority — as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.



https://www.wispolitics.com/2026/group-appealing-decision-to-dismiss-gerrymandering-lawsuit/