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BLACK POLITICAL TASK FORCE v. CONNOLLY

Civ. A. Nos. 87-1886-WD, 87-1953-WD.

679 F.Supp. 109 (1988)

BLACK POLITICAL TASK FORCE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Michael Joseph CONNOLLY, et al., Defendants. MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Michael Joseph CONNOLLY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

February 2, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph L. Kociubes, John R. Snyder, Bingham, Dana & Gould, Robert J. Muldoon, Jr., Daniel B. Winslow, Sherin and Lodgen, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Steven P. Perlmutter, Harrison & McGuire, Boston, Mass., for all defendants but Connolly.

Stephen H. Oleskey, Paul A. Lazour, Office of Atty. Gen., Elections Div., Boston, Mass., for Michael J. Connolly.

Steven P. Perlmutter, Harrison & Maguire, Boston, Mass., for City of Boston, Raymond L. Flynn, Boston Election Committee by Benjamin Thompson.

Before COFFIN, Circuit Judge, and KEETON and WOODLOCK, District Judges.

MEMORANDUM

WOODLOCK, District Judge.

Two sets of plaintiffs in these consolidated actions claim that the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the 1987 reapportionment of their elected deliberative bodies, violated the federal constitutional mandate of electoral equality expressed by the shorthand phrase "one person one vote."1

With the cooperation of the parties, the issues were framed to be presented...

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