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GOINES v. HEISKELL

No. 71-252.

362 F.Supp. 313 (1973)

Sara GOINES et al., Plaintiffs, and Stephen Hanna et al., Intervening Plaintiffs, v. Edgar F. HEISKELL, III, Secretary of State of West Virginia, in his official capacity, Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. West Virginia, Charleston Division.

August 6, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Kaufman, Charleston, W. Va., for plaintiffs.

Ronald E. Wilson, New Cumberland, W. Va., for intervening plaintiffs.

Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Atty. Gen. of W. Va., and Cletus B. Hanley and William F. Lockhart, Asst. Attys. Gen., of W. Va., Charleston, W. Va., for defendant.

Before BOREMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and CHRISTIE and HALL, District Judges.

OPINION AND ORDER

K. K. HALL, District Judge:

Initially in this action, commenced late in 1971, plaintiffs complained that the then existing West Virginia law apportioning membership in the House of Delegates of the West Virginia Legislature created an invidiously discriminatory delegate election system which diluted plaintiffs' voting rights and deprived them of equal protection of law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...

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