See this order, issued today, clarifying that the district court is to consider in the first instance, “whether plaintiffs-appellants had also stated a claim on behalf of plaintiffs who are neither incarcerated nor on parole that their votes are ‘diluted’ because of New York’s apportionment process, ‘which counts incarcerated prisoners as residents of the communities in which they are incarcerated, and has the alleged effect of increasing upstate New York regions’ populations at the expense of New York City’s.” Thus, “the Clerk of Court is directed to issue the mandate for this case forthwith and remand this case to the District Court for the limited purpose of considering whether plaintiffs-appellants properly stated a vote dilution claim based on New York’s apportionment process, and, if so, to rule on the merits of that claim.”