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SKOLNICK v. STATE ELECTORAL BOARD OF ILLINOIS

No. 69 C 755.

336 F.Supp. 839 (1971)

Sherman H. SKOLNICK et al., Plaintiffs, v. STATE ELECTORAL BOARD OF ILLINOIS, Defendant, William L. Springer et al., Intervenors.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

Order November 5, 1971.

Dissenting Opinion November 10, 1971.

Memorandum November 15, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherman H. Skolnick and others pro se.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen. of Ill., for defendant.

Jerome H. Torshen, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for intervenors, W. Robert Blair, Henry J. Hyde and Edward Madigan.

Before CASTLE, Senior Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge, and DECKER, District Judge.

DECKER, District Judge.

This is the latest chapter in the quest to apportion Illinois' twenty-four Congressional districts so that they comply with the constitutional mandate of one man one vote. Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, 84 S.Ct. 526, 11 L.Ed.2d 481 (1964). In 1961 the Illinois General Assembly established districts on the basis of population figures derived from the 1960 decennial census. Ill.Rev.Stat. ch. 46, § 156f.1...

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