MCGOVERN v. SECRETARY OF STATE

No. 92-446.

138 N.H. 128 (1993)

CYNTHIA MCGOVERN & a. v. SECRETARY OF STATE

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 23, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ford, Ford & Weaver, of Portsmouth (Mark F. Weaver on the brief and orally), for the plaintiffs.

Jeffrey R. Howard, attorney general (George Dana Bisbee, deputy attorney general, on the brief and orally), for the defendant.


BROCK, C.J.

The plaintiffs, nine members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives elected from the Portsmouth districts, appeal an order of the Superior Court (Gray, J.) denying their petition for declaratory judgment concerning the constitutionality of apportionment legislation for the house of representatives.

The plaintiffs argue that the trial court (1) erred as a matter of law in holding that the house acted constitutionally in approving the...

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