Supreme Court Set To Hear Redistricting Case

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...The Kentucky Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a legislative redistricting case next Friday, February 24th, after Chief Justice John D. Minton filed an order Friday officially accepting transfer of the case from the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ruled the new districts are out of balance and needed to be redrawn to comply with the "one person, one vote" mandate in federal and state law. Challenges were quickly taken to the Kentucky Court of Appeals and then to the Supreme Court.