There is a "hearing" today WRT the new NYS redistricting lines before an upstate appellate judge

 

So far, he has temporarily STAYED the trial court's order throwing out the new lines for having violated the NYS Constitution

Today's hearing is whether the decision and order of Trial Court Justice Patrick F, McAllister should be permanently restrained   >>>  while the Appellate Division for the Fourth Department in New York hears and decides the appeal of the trial court's original decicion and order          

An appellate judge named Stephen K. Lindley of the New York State Supreme Court, Fourth Appellate Department, in Rochester has already issued a temporary stay of the lower court's first order throwing out the recently enacted U.S. congrssional and N.Y.S. legislative lines  ---  after several NYS Democratic Party leaders formally contested the lower court’s opinion last week that the new district maps were unconstitutional. Also, Justice McAllister had found that, in some instances, the new lines apparently had been gerrymandered for partisan gain by the legislative majority. 

Judge Lindley did not address the merits of the underlying case. However, in a note instructing both the Democrat appellants and the Republicans challenging the maps to attend today's hearing, Justice Lindley said that he hoped to expedite the Appellate Department's proceedings as to whether the recently passed NYS law that allowed the legislature to make the new district lines was constitutional, as follows:  “....  The appeal will be greatly accelerated for obvious reasons, and I anticipate that a decision could be rendered within the next three weeks, if not sooner....”