Sixth Circuit Reopens Litigation Over Ohio’s Congressional Map

A suit challenging Ohio’s congressional maps as being racially gerrymandered was revived on Tuesday, April 9, by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The suit was previously dismissed by a lower district court judge in October and appealed shortly thereafter to the appellate court, which said on Tuesday the lower court erred in denying the defendants three-judge panel to review their claims and summarily dismissing the case. The appellate court (pdf) remanded the case back to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, ordering them to immediately initiate procedures to convene such a three-judge panel which is the normal course for a federal challenge to racial gerrymandering....