In response to the recent court decision that deemed Boston’s newly drawn legislative district lines unfair to minority voters, House Speaker Thomas Finneran (D-Boston), who drafted the plan, will collaborate with minority organizations in the coming weeks to create a new legislative map, which they must show to the federal court in six weeks.

In the court opinion, Bruce Selya, the circuit judge presiding over the case, wrote that he agreed with the organizations, including the Black Political Task Force and BostonVOTE, who accused the House Redistricting Committee of ignoring minority voting rights while protecting lawmakers’ seats.

“The committee simultaneously packed minority voters into a tiny number of districts and splintered the minority vote in other districts in an effort to protect white incumbents,” he wrote.

If Finneran does not draft the new plan in the six weeks allotted to him, the court will “draft a remedy.”

In the ruling, Selya cautioned the Redistricting Committee to meet the needs of all minority groups.

“We remind the defendants that any new redistricting scheme must not rob Peter to pay Paul: A revised plan must afford all cognizable minority groups, not just African Americans, an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and elect representatives of their choice,” he wrote.

Finneran has met with other representatives and will start a new legislative map by meeting with the plaintiffs, a spokesman said.

“The speaker has met with the Boston representatives and talked to them about what the court ruling was,” said Finneran spokesman Charles Rasmussen. “They will work with the computer and try to figure out something.”

The Redistricting Committee used a computer program called Maptitude to redraw district lines based on population shifts in the city, according to the court ruling.

Rasmussen said Finneran “would like to meet” with BostonVOTE, the Black Political Task Force and the other plaintiffs and hear their suggestions before going back to the drawing board.

Gibran Rivera, a spokesman for BostonVOTE, said the organization has talked to representatives whose districts would be affected by redrawing the legislative map and will meet with Finneran sometime in the coming weeks.

He had mixed reviews on how the court decision will affect Boston’s Latino community.

“With the Mattapan district, we think [the Redistricting Committee has] little parameter. The judges were very clear,” he said.

In Finneran’s proposed legislative map, the minority voting population in Mattapan decreased to 61 percent from 74 percent, according to the BostonVOTE website. Rivera said the organization proposed the minority population percentage shift back to 70 percent.

In his ruling, Selya wrote that the minority population in Mattapan was reduced by the “superpacking of the 6th Suffolk district,” which includes Dorchester, already a “majority minority” district. The “superpacking” – clumping together minority voters into one district to reduce their voting power in other districts – also turned the 11th Suffolk District, which includes Roxbury, into a “majority-white” district.

“This manipulation of district lines comprises a textbook case of packing, which resulted in concentrating large numbers of minority voters within a relatively small number of districts,” Selya wrote.

Rivera said the judge’s ruling on the East Boston and Chelsea districts did little to alter Finneran’s map of the area.

“The court did not rule directly in our favor in the East Boston and Chelsea” districts, he said.

He said he hoped the committee would consider minority groups regardless of the court ruling.

“The legislators have an opportunity to demonstrate good will toward the Latino community” by redrawing the districts to allow for substantial minority voting power, “even though they were not mandated to do it,” Rivera said.

In Finneran’s proposal, parts of Chelsea, a city with a large Latino population, were grouped with white majority Charlestown, even though the communities are separated by a bridge.

According to its website, BostonVOTE will propose to group Chelsea and East Boston, also heavily Latino, into one district.