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TURNER v. STATE OF ARK.

Civ. No. LR-C-91-295.

784 F.Supp. 585 (1991)

Jessie TURNER; Christine Brownlee; Jack Foster; Alan Smith; and Freddie Lyon, Plaintiffs, v. The STATE OF ARKANSAS; Bill Clinton, Governor of the State of Arkansas; William J. McCuen, Secretary of State of the State of Arkansas; John M. Lipton, Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives; and Jerry P. Bookout, President Pro Tempore of the Arkansas Senate, Defendants.

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

November 15, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bob R. Brooks, Jr., Hilburn, Calhoon, Harper, Pruniski & Calhoun, Ltd., North Little Rock, Ark., W. Asa Hutchinson, Karr & Hutchinson, Fort Smith, Ark., for plaintiffs.

Tim C. Humphries, Atty. General's Office, Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.

P.A. Hollingsworth, Hollingsworth Law Firm, P.A., Little Rock, Ark., Olly Neal, Jr., Wilson, Bell & Neal, Marianna, Ark., for intervenors-plaintiffs.

Jim Malone, Jr., pro se.

OPINION

MAL-APPORTIONMENT CLAIM

EISELE, District Judge.

In 1982 a Three Judge District Court composed of Circuit Judge Richard Arnold and District Judges Overton and Woods held that Act 1965 of 1981 of the Arkansas General Assembly was unconstitutional under Article I, Section 2. The Court then announced its intention to order into effect a new plan unless the Governor called the General Assembly into extraordinary session to enact a new, valid...

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