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BUTTERWORTH v. DEMPSEY

Civ. No. 9571.

229 F.Supp. 754 (1964)

Oliver BUTTERWORTH et al., Plaintiffs, v. John DEMPSEY, Governor of the State of Connecticut, Ella T. Grasso, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, Donald J. Irwin, Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, and Raymond S. Thatcher, Comptroller of the State of Connecticut, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Connecticut.

Filed March 26, 1964.

Judgment Amended April 2, 1964.

Judgments Affirmed June 22, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald F. Keefe, of Gumbart, Corbin, Tyler & Cooper, New Haven, Conn. (William L. F. Felstiner and Milton P. DeVane, of Gumbart, Corbin, Tyler & Cooper, New Haven, Conn., on the brief), for plaintiffs.

Harold M. Mulvey, Atty. Gen. of Conn., Hartford, Conn., for defendants.

H. Meade Alcorn, Jr., of Alcorn, Bakewell & Smith, Hartford, Conn., and Prof. James Wm. Moore, New Haven, Conn. (Norman K. Parsells, Bridgeport, Conn., Ralph M. Shulansky, of Shulansky & Cohn, Hartford, Conn., and Ralph G. Elliot, of Alcorn, Bakewell & Smith, Hartford, Conn., on the brief), for intervenors A. Searle Pinney, J. Tyler Patterson, Jr., Frederick Pope, Jr., and Peter P. Mariani.

Leo Parskey, Hartford, Conn., for intervenor John M. Bailey.

Before J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge, and ANDERSON and TIMBERS, District Judges.

Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law; Judgment; Memorandum on Form of Judgment; and Memorandum on Motion to Intervene by Towns of Franklin and Salem Filed March 26, 1964.

Judgments Affirmed June 22, 1964. See 84 S.Ct. 1913, 1918.

TIMBERS, District Judge:

QUESTION PRESENTED

The question here presented is whether the Connecticut General Assembly as now constituted denies plaintiffs the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth...

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