WELLS v. EDWARDS

No. 72-621.

409 U.S. 1095 (1973)

WELLS v. EDWARDS, GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

January 8, 1973.


Affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE, with whom MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS and MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL join, dissenting.

The Louisiana constitutional provisions, which this Court today upholds against appellant's renewed constitutional attack, provide for the election of the State's Supreme Court Justices from election districts that are established without regard to population. Voters in five districts, composed of varying numbers of parishes, elect one justice each. A sixth...

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