In Re Legislative Districting of General Assembly

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• minimizing contests between incumbents is not impermissible consideration unless it results in districts lacking population equality or compactness
• minimizing contests between incumbents is not impermissible consideration unless it results in districts lacking population equality or compactness
• noting “strange shapes” in shifting burden of proving compliance with compactness requirement
• state failed to sustain burden of proof to show why state legislative reapportionment plan could not comply with state constitution’s compactness requirement
• state failed to sustain burden of proof to show why state legislative reapportionment plan could not comply with state constitution’s compactness requirement
• legislature failed to sustain its burden to show why it could not comply with state constitutional compactness requirement

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