District Map Suit

Opponents of new state House districts took their legal challenge to a trial court Friday after Missouri’s Supreme Court refused to hear their case directly. The filing in Cole County, the home county of the state capital of Jefferson City, was expected after the high court’s ruling Thursday that the group’s effort to strike down the new House district map would need to start in the lower court. A group of more than a dozen people contend the new state House map violates requirements that districts have similar populations and be contiguous and compact.