11.   If the governor and the Legislature miss the deadline, the court could appoint its own experts to redraw the districts.

12.   In addition, the district was redrawn last year to include a large Durham section where voters do not know him well.

13.   In Missouri, legislative districts are redrawn by apportionment commissions appointed by the governor.

14.   Legislatures were instructed to redraw the districts, and where they failed, the federal courts stepped in to do the job.

15.   Ms. Velazquez has said she will appeal the ruling and has begun to develop her own plan for redrawing the district.

16.   Notable losses in the House included Rep. Cynthia McKinney, a Georgia Democrat and outspoken member of the Congressional Black Caucus whose district was drastically redrawn by court order.

17.   Of course it also brings out the fiercest possible instincts of self-preservation among the officials whose districts are being redrawn.

18.   Redrawing the district would leave him in a district with a slight black majority.

19.   Republicans are worried that they will lose some legislative districts if more minorities, who to a large extent vote Democratic, are counted and districts are redrawn.

20.   Republicans fear the estimates would result in increased population counts in some areas and cause congressional districts to be redrawn to favor Democratic candidates.