MANN v. DAVIS

Civ. A. No. 2604.

213 F.Supp. 577 (1962)

Harrison MANN et al., Plaintiffs, v. Levin Nock DAVIS et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, at Alexandria.

Decided November 28, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund D. Campbell, Arlington, Va., and E. A. Prichard, Fairfax, Va., for plaintiffs.

Henry E. Howell, Jr., Sidney H. Kelsey, and Leonard B. Sachs, Norfolk, Va., for plaintiff-intervenors.

Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, R. D. McIlwaine, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia, David J. Mays, and Henry T. Wickham, Richmond, Va., for defendants.

Before BRYAN, Circuit Judge, and HOFFMAN and LEWIS, District Judges.


ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Virginia's legislative apportionment statutes1 of 1962 are here assailed as violative of the Equal Protection Clause of the Federal Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment. Plaintiffs (including intervenors) are registered and otherwise qualified voters of the State of Virginia residing, respectively, in Arlington County, Fairfax County and the City of Norfolk. Their complaint is that the apportionment reduces...

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