Here are the principles in the complaint:
1. Application. The principles in this section apply to congressional and legislative districts.
2. Population equality.
(a) Congressional districts must be as nearly equal in total population as practicable without dividing a precinct into more than one district.
(b) Legislative districts must be substantially equal in total population. The population of a
legislative district must not deviate from the ideal by more than one percent, plus or minus, or two percent, if the plan does not split a precinct.
3. Minority representation. Districts must not be drawn with the intent or effect to deny or abridge the equal opportunity of racial or language minorities to participate in the political process or to diminish their ability to elect representatives of their choice.
4. Convenience and contiguity. The districts must be composed of convenient contiguous territory that allows for easy travel throughout the district. Contiguity by water is sufficient if the water is not a serious obstacle to travel within the district. Districts with areas that touch only at a point are not contiguous.
5. Political subdivisions. A county, city, town, or precinct must not be divided into more than one district except as necessary to meet equal population requirements or to form districts that are composed of convenient, 1 contiguous, and compact territory. When a county, city, town, or precinct must be divided into more than one district, it must be divided into as few districts as possible.
6. Compactness. Districts must be reasonably compact as determined by more than one measure of compactness that is accepted in political science and statistics literature.
7. American Indian reservations. A federally recognized American Indian reservation must not be divided into more than one district except as necessary to meet equal population requirements or to form districts that are composed of convenient, contiguous, and compact territory. When a federally recognized American Indian reservation must be divided into more than one district, it must be divided into as few districts as possible.
8. Communities of interest. Districts should attempt to preserve identifiable communities of interest. A community of interest may include an ethnic or language group or any group with shared experiences and concerns, including but not limited to geographic, governmental, regional, social, cultural, historic, socioeconomic, occupational, trade, or transportation interests. Communities of interest do not include relationships with political parties, incumbents, or political candidates.
9. Incumbents. A district or plan must not be drawn with the intent to protect or defeat an incumbent.
10. Partisanship. A district or plan must not be drawn with the intent or effect to unduly favor or disfavor a political party. The commission must use judicial standards and the best available scientific and statistical methods, including more than one measure of partisan effect, to assess compliance with this principle.
11. Competition. Districts should be drawn to encourage electoral competition. A district is competitive if the plurality of the winning political party in the territory encompassed by the district, based on statewide state and federal partisan general election results during the last ten years, has historically been no more than eight percent.
12. Numbering.
(a) Congressional district numbers must begin with district one in the southeast corner of the state and end with the district with the highest number in the northeast corner of the state.
(b) Legislative district numbers must begin with house district 1A in the northwest corner of the state and proceed across the state from west to east, north to south. In a county or city that includes more than one whole senate district, the whole districts must be numbered consecutively.
13. Priority of principles. Where it is not possible to fully comply with the principles in this section, a redistricting plan must give priority to those principles in the order in which they are listed, except to the extent that doing so would violate federal law.