RADFORD v. GARY

Civ. No. 7144.

145 F.Supp. 541 (1956)

James A. RADFORD, Plaintiff, v. Raymond GARY, Governor of the State of Oklahoma; The House of Representatives of the State of Oklahoma; The State Senate of the State of Oklahoma: N. B. Johnson, Earl Welch, Albert C. Hunt, N. S. Corn, Ben T. Williams, Harry L. S. Halley, W. H. Blackbird, Denver Davison and Floyd L. Jackson, Composing the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma; and George D. Key, Art S. Bower, and Leo Winters, constituting the State Election Board of the State of Oklahoma, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Oklahoma.

November 2, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sid White, Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiff.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., of Oklahoma, and Fred Hansen, First Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendants.

Before MURRAH, Circuit Judge, and WALLACE and RIZLEY, District Judges.


MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

This three-judge court was convened under Title 28 U.S.C.A. § 2281, to hear the complaint of the plaintiff to the effect that the existing apportionment statutes of the State of Oklahoma violate the plain mandate of the Oklahoma Constitution and operate to deprive him of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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