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TROXLER v. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH POLICE JURY

Civ. A. No. 71-1661.

331 F.Supp. 222 (1971)

Kittridge TROXLER v. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH POLICE JURY et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

August 5, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel E. Becnel, Jr., Reserve, La., for Kittridge Troxler.

Melvin P. Barre, Dist. Atty., Edgard, La., for St. John the Baptist Parish Police Jury.

Benjamin E. Smith, Smith & Scheuermann, New Orleans, La., for Henry J. Hymel, Rudolph S. Sorapuru, Hannon I. Barre, Ernest A. Clement, Sr., Harry J. Montz and Raymond G. LeBouef, Individually.

A. M. Trudeau, Jr., New Orleans, La., for intervenors George Clark and Ezekiel Jackson.

HEEBE, District Judge:

Plaintiff, Kittridge Troxler, filed this lawsuit on behalf of himself and other residents of St. John the Baptist Parish similarly situated to compel the parish police jury to redistrict or reapportion itself based on the 1970 federal census. The complaint recited population figures which were not disputed by the police jury showing existing population deviations in excess of 80%, deviations certainly extreme enough to constitute malapportionment...

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