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SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA En Banc ) ) ) ) Petitioner, ) ) COLLEEN COYLE MATHIS, ) ) Intervenor, ) ) v. ) ) JANICE K. BREWER, in her ) official capacity as the ) Governor of the State of ) Arizona; ARIZONA STATE SENATE; ) RUSSELL PEARCE, in his official ) capacity as Senate President, ) ) Respondents. ) ) __________________________________) ARIZONA INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION, an Independent Constitutional Body, Arizona Supreme Court No. CV-11-0313-SA

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Special Action JURISDICTION ACCEPTED; RELIEF GRANTED ________________________________________________________________ OSBORN MALEDON PA Phoenix By Mary R. O'Grady Kristin L. Windtberg Grace E. Campbell Jean-Jacques Cabou Joseph N. Roth Attorneys for Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission JONES SKELTON & HOCHULI PLC Phoenix By A. Melvin McDonald, Jr. Lori L. Voepel Jonathan P. Barnes Attorneys for Arizona State Senate and Russell K. Pearce GAMMAGE & BURNHAM PLLC By Lisa T. Hauser Phoenix

Christopher Hering Cameron C. Artigue And OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR By Joseph Sciarrotta, Jr. Christina Estes-Werther Attorneys for Governor Janice K. Brewer LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS A. ZLAKET PLLC By Thomas A. Zlaket Attorney for Colleen Coyle Mathis COPPERSMITH SCHERMER & BROCKELMAN PLC By Andrew S. Gordon Roopali Hardin Desai Attorneys for Amicus Curiae Linda C. McNulty TIM NELSON, PLLC By Timothy A. Nelson Attorney for Amicus Curiae Jose Herrera Phoenix

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ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST Phoenix By Timothy M. Hogan Joy E. Herr-Cardillo Attorneys for Amici Curiae Ann Eschinger, Dennis Michael Burke, and Bart Turner NAVAJO NATION, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE By Dana L. Bobroff Michelle Begay And SACKS TIERNEY PA By Judith M. Dworkin Patricia Ferguson-Bohnee Attorneys for Amicus Curiae Navajo Nation ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES By Peter A. Gentala Attorney for Amici Curiae Andrew M. Tobin, Alan L. Krieger, Marlin Kuykendall, and John Moore PERKINS COIE LLP By Paul F. Eckstein Scottsdale Window Rock

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Amelia M. Gerlicher Kirstin T. Eidenbach Attorneys for Amici Curiae Common Cause, Susan Gerard, Lucia Howard, Paul Johnson, and Roberta L. Voss PE

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