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Seeking a final ruling before the legislative session starts in January, both sides in a battle over a congressional redistricting plan asked an appeals court Friday to fast-track the case to the Florida Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, siding with the City of Miami in a battle over which map the city must use in the November local elections.

A federal appeals court ruled the City of Miami shouldn't adopt a map drawn by community groups, but the groups are taking the challenge to the nation's highest court.

In an interview with AmericaTeVe about the racial gerrymandering lawsuit against Miami, the city commissionor criticized the federal judge overseeing the case.

In a last-minute move, an appeals court has allowed the city of Miami to hold off on adopting a new voting map ahead of November's elections, after a ruling in a racial gerrymandering lawsuit.

In the federal racial gerrymandering case against the City of Miami, the judge rejected the city commission's map, saying it was unconstitutional.

Miami commissioners proposed and approved a new district map after they were ordered to do so in a federal racial gerrymandering case. But a judge still needs to approve it — and plaintiffs in the case have already indicated they will object to it.

UPDATE: After a judge said the City of Miami must make a new district map, community groups that sued the city held a forum in Coconut Grove to get input from residents.

After a federal judge tossed out the City of Miami's redistricted map over allegations of racial gerrymandering, the ACLU has submitted two new plans it claims feature "logical districts that respect neighborhoods."

Judge K. Michael Moore says Miami needs to go back to the drawing board with its controversial new commission district maps, following an ACLU of Florida challenge.

After the ACLU of Florida and local plaintiffs claimed Miami was guilty of "racial gerrymandering," a federal magistrate judge found "substantially evidence" of violations of the 14th Amendment — and recommends the city draw up a new map.

A protracted legal fight over how city council districts were drawn in Jacksonville, Florida, reflects an aspect of redistricting that often remains in the shadows. Political map-drawing for congressional and state legislative seats captures wide attention after new census numbers are released every 10 years.