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MARTIN v. VENABLES

Civ. No. B-75-227.

401 F.Supp. 611 (1975)

David J. MARTIN et al. v. Joseph W. VENABLES et al.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

September 8, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Kupinse, Jr., Bridgeport, Conn., for plaintiffs.

Alexander A. Goldfarb, Hartford, Conn., Isaac J. Murov, Anthony P. Copertino, Jr., Richard P. Gilardi, Charles S. Weidman, Bridgeport, Conn., for defendants; Robert F. Frankel, pro se.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

NEWMAN, District Judge.

This suit, challenging the apportionment of councilmen within the town of Stratford, presents initially the question of whether apportionment on the basis of registered voters, rather than total population, violates the one person-one vote requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Plaintiffs are residents and qualified voters in each of the ten voting districts of the Town. Defendants are the town's...

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