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BAKER v. CARR

Civ. A. No. 2724.

222 F.Supp. 684 (1963)

Charles W. BAKER et al., Original and Intervening Plaintiffs, v. Joe C. CARR et al., Original, Intervening and Added Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

October 10, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Z. T. Osborn, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., Hobart F. Atkins, Knoxville, Tenn., Walter Chandler, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Neill S. Brown, Director of Law, Seymour Samuels, Asst. Director of Law, Metropolitan Government, Nashville, Tenn., Harris Gilbert, Nashville, Tenn., for City of Nashville (Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn.).

C. R. McClain, Director of Law, Knoxville, Tenn., for City of Knoxville, Tenn.

J. W. Anderson, City Atty., Chattanooga, Tenn., E. K. Meacham, Eugene N. Collins, Chattanooga, Tenn., for City of Chattanooga, Tenn.

Cecil Branstetter, Nashville, Tenn., for Tenn. State Labor Council.

Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr., Asst. Director of Law, Metropolitan Government, Nashville, Tenn., for Davidson County Election Commission.

George H. McCanless, Atty. Gen., and Milton P. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants.

Edwin F. Hunt, Nashville, Tenn., for Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation.

Before WEICK, Circuit Judge, and BOYD and MILLER, District Judges.

BY THE COURT.

This action again comes before us for consideration of the problem of legislative apportionment in Tennessee.

On June 22, 1962, the Court rendered a per curiam opinion, Baker, et al., v. Carr, et al., 206 F.Supp. 341, setting forth its views with respect to the 1962 legislation enacted by an extraordinary session of the General Assembly of Tennessee when measured in terms of the equal protection requirements...

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