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"CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, in an order Wednesday, said oral arguments over the new House of Delegates and Senate redistricting plans will be held next week.<br /><br />The Court, in its three-page order, said arguments will be held in Charleston at 10 a.m. Nov. 17.<br /><br />The order of argument and the time allotted to each party will be provided at a later date, the Court said.<br /><br />Also Wednesday, the Court ordered a rule to show cause be awarded to the petitioners in the five redistricting cases.<br /><br />They include: South Charleston attorney Thornton Cooper; Putnam County Commissioners Stephen Andes and Joseph Haynes; Putnam County Clerk Brian Wood; Mason County Commissioners Bob Baird, Myles Epung and Rick Handley; Mason County Clerk Diana Cromley; Monroe County Commissioners Michael Shane Ashley, Clyde Gum Jr. and William Miller; and Monongalia and Wood county residents Eldon A. Callen, Jim Boyce, Petra and John Wood, and Frank Deem.<br /><br />This means the respondents in the five cases, Secretary of State Natalie Tennant and House Speaker Rick Thompson, must show cause why a writ of prohibition or mandamus should not be awarded against the Secretary of State's Office, as requested by the petitioners.<br /><br />The responses already filed in the House cases by Cooper and Putnam and Mason counties will stand as the responses to rule to show cause, the Court explained.<br /><br />Those responses filed in the three remaining cases -- which are due on or before Monday -- also will serve as the responses to rule to show cause, the Court said.<br /><br />The petitioners argue that the new House and Senate redistricting plans are unconstitutional. They want the state's high court to stop Tennant's office from implementing the plans."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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