1.  A similar Waco judicial panel is hearing a congressional redistricting case.

2.  First the judges hauled all the parties in the redistricting case into a hearing, demanding to know why the Legislature rather than the court should draw the districts.

3.  For example, previous court rulings in redistricting cases have held that incumbency protection may be a factor in drawing lines.

4.  In a redistricting case decided last week, the Supreme Court reminded everyone that the Voting Rights Act meant what it said.

5.  In redistricting cases, legal authorities say, the political affiliation of the judges involved often makes a big difference.

6.  In the redistricting case, the Republicans were invoking sensitivity to minority voters as a way of protecting their own power.

7.  It was the first time that a summary judgment had been rendered in such a racial redistricting case, Popper said.

8.  Our circumspect approach and narrow holding in Shaw did not erect an artificial rule barring accepted equal protection analysis in other redistricting cases.

9.  Plus other actions, including the decision to hear a Mississippi redistricting case.

10.  That mindset drives his decisions on voting rights and redistricting cases affecting racial minorities.