Supreme Court to Hear Maryland Redistricting Case

WASHINGTON (AP) - A 55-year-old law school student from Maryland is having his case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
 
Stephen Shapiro's case began with his frustration over the way Maryland redrew the state's eight Congressional districts in 2011. The American University law school student sees the shapes of some of the state's districts as nonsensical. But several months after he sued over the districts in 2013 a judge threw the lawsuit out, ruling it wasn't based on a valid legal theory.
 
Shapiro says that a federal law called the Three-Judge Court Act required the judge to at least forward his lawsuit to a special three-judge panel. Now, the Supreme Court will decide whether dismissing the case was proper.
 
The court will hear the case Wednesday.