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DOULIN v. WHITE

Civ. A. No. LR-C-81-418.

535 F.Supp. 450 (1982)

Edwin C. DOULIN, Helen Lee Adair, Edward F. Ball, William Joseph Barnes, Don E. Davis, Earl W. Harris, Roger D. Harrod, Richard D. Love, Sharon K. Trusty, Nora M. Waye, Almeda Ann Wagner, Analee Vaught, and Clara White, Plaintiffs, v. Frank WHITE, Governor of the State of Arkansas; Winston Bryant, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Arkansas; Steve Clark, Attorney General of the State of Arkansas; Paul Riviere, Secretary of State of the State of Arkansas; Julia Hughes Jones, State Auditor of the State of Arkansas; Jimmie Lou Fisher, State Treasurer of the State of Arkansas; Bill McCuen, State Land Commissioner of the State of Arkansas; Herby Branscum, Chairman of the State Democratic Central Committee of the State of Arkansas; Harlan "Bo" Holleman, Chairman of the State Republican Central Committee of the State of Arkansas; Joe Basore, Citizen of the State of Arkansas; E. J. Jacobs, Citizen of the State of Arkansas; Stark Ligon, Citizen of the State of Arkansas; all of the above being Commissioners of the State Board of Elections of the State of Arkansas, Defendants; Veo Easley, County Judge of Grant County, Arkansas, Plaintiff-Intervenor.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

February 25, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Walker, Heiskell, Donelson, Bearman, Adams, Williams, & Kirsch, John L. Ryder, Laughlin, Halle, Clark & Gibson, Memphis, Tenn., Stanley D. Miller, Miller, Jones & Goldman, Hot Springs, Ark., for plaintiffs.

R. B. Friedlander, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.

Phillip H. Shirron, Sheridan, Ark., for plaintiff-intervenor.

Before ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, and OVERTON and WOODS, District Judges.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

On January 5, 1982, we held Act 965 of 1981, the congressional-districting plan enacted by the Arkansas General Assembly, unconstitutional under Art. I, § 2. We announced our intention to order into effect another, constitutional plan by which the 1982 congressional elections would be conducted, unless the Governor, on or before February 15, 1982, should call the General Assembly into extraordinary...

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