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LaCOMB v. GROWE

Civ. No. 4-81-414.

541 F.Supp. 145 (1982)

Sharon LaCOMB, James A. Woolley, and Phillip R. Krass, individually and on behalf of all citizens and voters of the State of Minnesota similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Joan GROWE, Secretary of State of Minnesota; Vernon T. Hoppe, Hennepin County Auditor; Charles R. Lefebvre, Anoka County Auditor; Carl D. Onishchuk, Dakota County Auditor, on behalf of themselves and all County Auditors of the State of Minnesota, Defendants, Laverne Orwoll, Wilma Grams, David A. Broden, Donna Denkinger, Carrolyn Anderson, John Schnobrich, Henry Berghuis, Dorothy Nelson, Intervenors, Seventy-Second Minnesota State Senate, Amicus Curiae.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Fourth Division.

March 11, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan W. Weinblatt, Leonard & Weinblatt, St. Paul, Minn., for plaintiffs.

Warren R. Spannaus, Atty. Gen., and Douglas C. Blomgren and D. Douglas Blanke, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, Minn., for defendants, Joan Growe, Charles R. Lefebvre, and Thomas Hennen.

Thomas L. Johnson, Hennepin County Atty., and James Bares, Asst. County Atty., Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant Vernon T. Hoppe.

Robert F. Carolan, Dakota County Atty., and James C. Backstrom, Asst. County Atty., Hastings, Minn., for defendant Carl D. Onishchuk.

Frank Hammond and Richard H. Kyle, Briggs & Morgan, St. Paul, Minn., for intervenors Laverne Orwoll, Wilma Grams, David A. Broder, Donna Denkinger, Carrolyn Anderson, John Schnobrich, Henry Berghuis and Dorothy Nelson.

Before HEANEY, Circuit Judge, and MacLAUGHLIN and ALSOP, District Judges.

MEMORANDUM OPINION.

This Court is faced with the difficult and sensitive task of reapportioning the State of Minnesota into eight congressional districts of equal size. We face this task because the State Legislature has failed to perform it.

We must base our decision on one of two conflicting principles. The first is to protect the incumbent Congressmen. That end is accomplished by making only those changes in present district lines necessary to correct...

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