North Carolina’s Legislative Maps Are Thrown Out by State Court Panel - The New York Times

Using the "free elections" clause of the state's Constitution North Carolina Common Cause struck a major blow against partisan gerrymandering  - the drawing of arbitrary electoral district lines in order to dilute the power of a political party's voters.   Much can be learned at the Common Cause North Carolina resource page for Common Cause v. Lewis.

North Carolina’s Legislative Maps Are Thrown Out by State Court Panel - The New York Times: A three-judge panel in Raleigh threw out North Carolina’s state legislative maps as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander and ordered new maps drawn and approved by Sept. 18.

In a major blow to Republicans who control the Legislature in one of the nation’s most bitterly divided states, a state court panel threw out North Carolina’s state legislative maps as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander and ordered lawmakers to draw up new ones in two weeks.

The ruling on Tuesday by a three-judge panel in Raleigh had the potential to bring to a decisive end a yearslong battle over gerrymandering in a critical swing state and indicated that state courts could act to rein in patently partisan electoral maps after the United States Supreme Court ruled in June, by a 5-to-4 margin, that federal courts could not.