The Supreme Court of Ohio has upheld as constitutional the state apportionment board’s 2011 redrawing of legislative districts for the Ohio General Assembly.

In a 4-3 decision authored by Justice Terrence O’Donnell, the court based its ruling on findings that The Ohio Constitution does not mandate political neutrality in the reapportionment of legislative districts, but does require that partisan considerations cannot prevail over the nonpartisan requirements set forth in Article XI.

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