The special elections for North Carolina discussed here are now on hold after SCOTUS issued a hold on the issue, as reported by WRAL.com:
The U.S. Supreme Court has put new General Assemyed a lower court demand that lawmakers redraw many of their districts and hold new elections in 2017. Normally, new legislative elections would have to wait until 2018.
WRAL further notes:
However, many of the issues at play in this state gerrymandering case are similar to a case involving congressional districts that went before the court in December. The Supreme Court has not issued a ruling in that case yet.
The cited case appears to have to do with how Congressional districts were drawn in North Carolina, so it makes some sense.
