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CUMMINGS v. MESKILL

Civ. A. No. 14736.

341 F.Supp. 139 (1972)

Theodore R. CUMMINGS et al., Plaintiffs, and Nancy Aronie et al., Intervenors, v. Thomas H. MESKILL, Governor of the State of Connecticut, et al., Defendants, and J. Brian Gaffney, Intervenor.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

Stay Granted June 12, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Satter (Satter, Fleischmann & Sherbacow), and James A. Wade, Hartford, Conn., for plaintiffs.

David B. Beizer, for intervening plaintiffs.

Robert K. Killian, Atty. Gen., State of Connecticut, and Raymond J. Cannon, and Barney Lapp, Asst. Attys. Gen., Hartford, Conn., for defendants.

Francis J. McCarthy, and Harry W. Hultgren, Jr., Hartford, Conn., for intervening defendant.

Before SMITH, Circuit Judge, and BLUMENFELD and ZAMPANO, District Judges.

Stay Granted June 12, 1972. See 92 S.Ct. 2441.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

This action challenges the Reapportionment Plan for the Connecticut General Assembly devised by a Board of three members, the last available link in a chain of methods mandated by the Connecticut Constitution for the production of a plan of reapportionment for the 1972 elections. The plaintiffs are U. S. citizens, residents of towns in Connecticut...

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