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Miguel Gabela has been running against incumbent Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla.

After being dealt a legal blow Friday in their efforts to keep a “racially gerrymandered” electoral map from being used in this November’s Miami city commission election, plaintiffs suing the city are taking their fight to the U.S. Supreme Court.

As plaintiffs in a racial gerrymandering lawsuit try to take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court, there was a new legal twist Monday in the ongoing saga over the fairness — or, as some argue, lack thereof — of Miami’s city commission district map.

In a 2-1 decision the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Friday granted the City of Miami’s motion for a stay. That means the Plaintiffs’ map won’t be used for the upcoming November election.

Miami Hurricanes superfan “Cutler Ridge Laz” — a regular on call-in sports radio and at pre-game tailgate parties for decades — has agreed to a 15-year sentence for stabbing a Lehigh Acres neighbor to death last year during a fight over stray animals, his attorney said.