NEW ORLEANS, La. (WLBT) - An order requiring the state to redraw its Mississippi Supreme Court district lines is on hold, pending a ruling in several similar cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the state’s request to place the appeal in abeyance, after the state argued that several similar cases were currently pending before the nation’s high court.

“Abeyance for at least the next 60 days will conserve the parties’ resources... enable the parties and their counsel to focus on the ongoing briefing in their respective redistricting lawsuits now pending at the U.S. Supreme Court... And an abeyance would guard against an unnecessary expenditure of resources in this case,” attorneys for the state wrote.

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