During This Week In South Florida on Sunday, Miami Commissioner Miguel Gabela said the delay in replacing the unconstitutional city-drawn districts’ map was to ensure it gets done.

Three weeks after a federal judge struck down Miami’s city commission map, ruling it was unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered, the groups that sued the city over its redistricting announced Wednesday that they’ve reached an “expected final agreement” with city officials to implement new boundaries and end the legal saga once and for all.

A federal judge struck down Miami’s current city commission map, ruling that the city “unconstitutionally” drew district lines based on race.

The long-awaited federal trial centered on Miami’s contentious voting maps began Monday with a series of plaintiffs’ witnesses testifying as to why they have standing to bring the complaint against the city.

A federal judge allowed an ongoing lawsuit challenging Miami’s electoral map to continue Friday, denying the city’s latest attempt to have the case thrown out of court.

After being dealt a legal blow Friday in their efforts to keep a “racially gerrymandered” electoral map from being used in this November’s Miami city commission election, plaintiffs suing the city are taking their fight to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Miami’s redistricting saga took another turn Monday after a court placed a temporary halt on a new city commission district map ordered in place by a federal judge the day prior.

Fresh off the heels of a court order stating Miami city commissioners’ second try at redrawing their electoral map failed to remedy “unconstitutional” racial gerrymandering issues, there are now questions over whether an incumbent commissioner will have to move or relinquish his seat.

In response to a lawsuit, a federal judge ruled Sunday that the city of Miami commissioners’ proposed district map, purportedly drawn to address issues of racial gerrymandering present in the current boundaries, failed to make significant enough changes to fix the problems he originally identified.

A federal appeals court has blocked proposed restrictions aimed at saving a vanishing species of whale, saying they could put thousands of commercial fishermen out of work.

A federal judge has declined to block a ban imposed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to prevent mandating masks for Florida school students amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

A prosecutor says South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg will avoid a trial and take a plea deal on misdemeanor traffic charges in a crash last year in which he hit and killed a man who was walking near a rural highway.

A new study says the hulking giants of the deep, North Atlantic right whales, are on average about three feet shorter than just 20 years ago.

Ravnsborg, South Dakotas Republican attorney general, has been charged with misdemeanor careless driving after he struck and killed a man with his car, authorities said Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Ad“At best, his conduct was negligent, which is insufficient to bring criminal charges in South Dakota," Beadle County State's Attorney Michael Moore, who helped handle the case, said. He called South Dakota's manslaughter law “weak” and that he expected his family to take civil action against Ravnsborg. Moore, the state's attorney, said the misdemeanor charges were the “right decision” but that he didn't feel good about it. A crash reconstruction expert from Wyoming and the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation assisted the South Dakota Highway Patrol in the investigation.

This combination photo shows poster art for political documentaries, from left, "All In: The Fight for Democracy," "Boys State," "537 Votes," "Slay the Dragon," and "The Fight." The election has unleashed an avalanche of documentaries like no season before it. In a presidential election of enormous stakes, filmmakers have rushed to finish their films before Election Day. (Amazon, from left, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max, Magnolia Pictures, Magnolia Pictures via AP)NEW YORK – The election has unleashed an avalanche of documentaries like no season before it. In a presidential election of enormous stakes, filmmakers have rushed to finish their films before Election Day, to try to inform, sway and entertain the electorate.