SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — As the clock ticks towards an anticipated ruling by Nov. 10 from Utah's Third District Judge Dianna Gibson in Utah's redistricting case in which map to use for Utah's 2026 midterms, the plaintiffs and the Utah legislature were back in court.

The plaintiffs and the Utah legislature were arguing over whether the legislature again violated Utah's anti-gerrymandering law known as Proposition 4.

This time, the plaintiff's claim was over a new law, S.B 1011, passed on Oct. 6, that mandated three specific tests to determine whether the maps favored or disfavored a party, a requirement of Prop 4 known as partisan symmetry.

Those tests, the plaintiffs allege, each create scenarios that favor the dominant party, and thus they claim that they violate Prop. 4's ban on partis

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