Rule 90.8.Expedited Applications to Compel Correction of Any Error in Redistricting Plan.

This rule applies to a constitutional challenge asking the superior court to compel the Redistricting Board to correct an error in its plan, and it supersedes any other civil rule that would conflict with it. The application must be filed within 30 days of the Board's final plan and proclamation, and served on the Board, the Attorney General's office, and the Lieutenant Governor's office. These applications take priority over everything else pending before the court, and the decision must issue no later than 120 days before the statutory filing deadline for the first statewide election the challenged plan would govern.

The record consists of the Board's own papers, exhibits, and any electronic record or transcript of its proceedings, supplemented by whatever additional evidence the court allows in its discretion — including deposition testimony taken without the usual limits on using depositions at trial — and a paginated copy of the Board's record is filed with the supreme court at the same time it's filed below. Within 10 days of the application, the assigned judge holds a mandatory scheduling conference (telephonic participation allowed at the judge's discretion) and enters a scheduling order covering whatever the case requires, and cases can be assigned across judicial district lines as the presiding judges and administrative director coordinate.