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YANCEY v. FAUBUS

No. LR-64-C-96.

238 F.Supp. 290 (1965)

John YANCEY, Plaintiff, v. Orval E. FAUBUS, Governor, Kelly Bryant, Secretary of State, Bruce Bennett, Attorney General, The Board of Apportionment, Defendants.

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

January 28, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thorp Thomas, Little Rock, Ark., for plaintiff.

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen., and Jack L. Lessenberry, Chief Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.

Before MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge, HENLEY, Chief District Judge, and YOUNG, District Judge.

HENLEY, Chief District Judge.

On June 15, 1964, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a series of decisions, hereinafter referred to as the Reapportionment Cases, holding in substance that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States requires that the membership of each house of a bicameral State legislature be apportioned so that, as nearly as practicable, each member of the respective houses represents the...

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