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LUCAS v. COLORADO GEN. ASSEMBLY

No. 508.

377 U.S. 713 (1964)

84 S.Ct. 1459

12 L.Ed.2d 632

LUCAS ET AL. v. FORTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF COLORADO ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 15, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Louis Creamer and Charles Ginsberg argued the cause and filed a brief for appellants.

Anthony F. Zarlengo, Special Assistant Attorney General of Colorado, argued the cause for the Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado et al., appellees. With him on the brief was Duke W. Dunbar, Attorney General of Colorado. Stephen H. Hart argued the cause for Johnson et al., appellees. With him on the brief were James Lawrence White, William E. Murane, Charles S. Vigil and Richard S. Kitchen, Sr.

Solicitor General Cox, by special leave of Court, argued the cause for the United States, as amicus curiae, urging reversal. With him on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Marshall, Bruce J. Terris, Harold H. Greene and David Rubin.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court.

Involved in this case is an appeal from a decision of the Federal District Court for the District of Colorado upholding the validity, under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, of the apportionment of seats in the Colorado Legislature pursuant to the provisions of a constitutional amendment approved by the Colorado electorate in 1962.

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