Misha Tseytlin, leader of Troutman Pepper’s Appellate + Supreme Court Practice Group, was quoted in the July 7, 2023 Oleans Times Herald article, “Student Loan Forgiveness Case May Hurt NY Democratic Redistricting Efforts.”

“Just as the term ‘modify’ cannot support the fundamental changes at issue in Biden, neither can it reasonably be read to permit a court to restart the … process and replace a reapportionment plan that a court lawfully adopted,” states a letter by Misha Tseytlin, an attorney for the Republican intervenors in the case. Tseytlin argued successfully in last year’s redistricting case, which led to the current political boundaries.

Tseytlin pointed to the dictionary’s definition of “modify,” which is to make “minor changes,” to “alter without transforming,” or make “small changes.”

“Modify doesn’t mean wholesale change,” Tseytlin, attorney for Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, said in court last month.

Tseytlin filed the letter this week with the Appellate Division’s Third Department in Albany, where a panel of judges heard oral arguments.

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