[6] From 1973 to 1993 the erstwhile 3rd district was based in Orange County, including Walt Disney World and most of Orlando.

Starting from the southern part of the district, it included the Pine Hills area of the Orlando-Kissimmee Metropolitan Area with small pockets of African-American neighborhoods in the cities of Sanford, Gainesville, Palatka, and finally the larger African American communities of Jacksonville.

[7][10] On August 1, Judge Lewis gave Florida's state legislature an Aug. 15 deadline to submit new congressional maps for those two districts.

[12] Brown said that "we will go all the way to the United States Supreme Court, dealing with making sure that African Americans are not disenfranchised.

"[13] Florida House Redistricting Chairman Richard Corcoran, a Republican, said that "consideration of political data is legally required" to ensure that district boundaries would not be so shifted as to not allow African-Americans a chance to elect representatives of their choice.