At the time, a merits panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals was ... Dick ordered the map redrawn to add a second Black-majority district to the congressional plan, finding that the map ...

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Black voters and others had argued the Supreme Court should send the case back to the 5th Circuit ... maps. But they were successful at the district level: U.S ...

The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Spirit Lake Nation and three tribal citizens this week asked the full 8th Circuit Court ...

Coalitions of minority groups cannot band together to claim that political maps constitute ... the states where the court has jurisdiction. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit is known for ...

A Louisiana legislative committee has killed two bills that would have added eight new majority Black districts to the state ...

(Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP, File) (CN) — Louisiana officials asked the Fifth Circuit Tuesday ... In April 2024, a three-judge district panel ruled 2-1 that the new map is unconstitutional — ...

The 12-to-6 ruling on Thursday by the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned almost ... The case involves a district map for county commissioners in Galveston County, Texas.