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HOWELL v. MAHAN

Civ. A. Nos. 105-71-N, 111-71-A, 174-71-R.

330 F.Supp. 1138 (1971)

Henry E. HOWELL, Jr., et al., v. Joan S. MAHAN et al. Stanford E. PARRIS et al., v. Edgar A. PRICHARD et al. Clive L. DuVAL, II, et al., v. Edgar A. PRICHARD et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Virginia, Norfolk, Alexandria and Richmond Divisions.

July 2, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund D. Campbell, Arlington, Va., for Clive L. DuVal.

Henry E. Howell, Jr., pro se.

Stanford E. Parris, pro se.

Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen. of Va., Anthony F. Troy, Theodore J. Markow, Asst. Attys. Gen., for defendants.

James M. Thomson, pro se.

Gordon B. Taylor, Jr., Norfolk, Va., for intervenor City of Norfolk.

J. Dale Bimson, Virginia Beach, Va., for intervenor City of Virginia Beach.

Armand Durfner, R. Stephen Browning, Washington, D. C., for black plaintiffs intervenors.

Before ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge, and LEWIS, MacKENZIE and MERHIGE, District Judges.

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge:

The Constitution of Virginia, Article II, Section 6 directs, inter alia, that "members of the Senate and of the House of Delegates of the General Assembly shall be elected from electoral districts established by the General Assembly [the legislature]" and that "[e]very electoral district shall be composed of contiguous and compact territory and shall be so constituted as to give, as nearly as is practicable, representation in proportion...

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