STATE OF WISCONSIN v. ZIMMERMAN

Civ. A. No. 3540.

209 F.Supp. 183 (1962)

STATE OF WISCONSIN, Mrs. Elfrieda Wilson, Dan Smith, Robert E. Smith, Lyle Link and Thomas Miglautsch, Plaintiffs, v. Robert C. ZIMMERMAN, Secretary of State of the State of Wisconsin, Defendant.

United States District Court W. D. Wisconsin.

August 14, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Reynolds, Atty. Gen., of Wisconsin, Roy G. Tulane, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., for plaintiffs.

Roger C. Minahan, Edward D. Cleveland, and Alfred A. Heon, Milwaukee, Wis., for defendants; Whyte, Hirschboeck, Minahan, Harding & Harland, Milwaukee, Wis., of counsel.

Before DUFFY, Circuit Judge, and STONE and GRUBB, District Judges.


DUFFY, Circuit Judge.

This suit was commenced by the State of Wisconsin asking equitable relief under the Constitution and laws of the United States to compel the defendant Zimmerman, Secretary of State, to refrain from conducting Wisconsin general elections for the Wisconsin state legislature under the Rosenberry Apportionment Act of 1951, and to refrain from conducting elections for members of Congress under Ch. 3, Stats, of 1959, as amended.

Thereafter...

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