[deport]

You maybe correct about the plan being implemented awaiting final disposition in the courts... Some of that seemed to have happened in the 1990 cases.....

http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/departments/scr/redist/redsum/TXSUM.HTM

[Dog Gone]

Good link.

I didn't go look at the actual court decisions yet, but the summary provided for Vera v. Richards did mention this:

Plaintiffs challenged 24 of the state's 30 congressional districts as racial gerrymanders. The federal district court struck down three, Districts 18, 29, and 30, but the decision was stayed pending appeal, so the plan continued in use for the 1994 election.

That tends to support my guess.

[Princeliberty]

That what happened before, but since
these would going in effect after the
2002 elections, the current districts would stand
pending the outcome.
The rules are always going to favor the status
quo remaining.