The 11th Circuit appellate court’s pending decision will have an immediate impact on voter maps and future elections in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, the states it governs. It is also likely to ...

The new ruling from the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals covers the seven midwestern ... who a trial court found were subjected to a map that discriminated against them on account of race.” ...

David Goodman A federal appeals court further narrowed the scope ... said that the redrawn map upheld by the Fifth Circuit markedly affected his city, where most residents are Black or Hispanic.

A federal appeals court foreclosed on Wednesday one of the main remaining means by which civil rights activists could enforce a landmark voting rights law's protections against racial discrimination ...

Coalitions of minority groups cannot band together to claim that political maps constitute discriminatory gerrymandering, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a Galveston County lawsuit.

For Supreme Court and appellate court justices ... Those circuits are then broken down into subcircuits. A map of the circuits can be found on the Illinois Court system’s website.

US Appeals Court Curtails Key Avenue to ... and South Dakota to challenge unfair voting maps. Those states are within the jurisdiction of the 8th Circuit, which had already severely restricted ...