MARYLAND CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR FAIR CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING, INC., et al.
v.
J. Millard TAWES, as Governor of the State of Maryland, and
Lloyd Simpkins, as Secretary of State of the State of Maryland.
United States District Court D. Maryland.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
March 21, 1964.
March 21, 1964.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James H. French, Alfred L. Scanlan, Shea & Gardner, and Cummings & Sellers, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.
Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen., Robert C. Murphy, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Robert F. Sweeney, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Baltimore, Md., for defendants.
Marvin H. Smith, Denton, Md., for Republican State Central Committee of Maryland, intervenor.
William L. Marbury and Decatur H. Miller, Baltimore, Md., for George P. Mahoney, intervenor.
A. Adgate Duer and Robert C. Prem, Baltimore, Md., for Charles McC. Mathias and Rogers C. B. Morton, intervenors.
George D. Hubbard, Baltimore, Md., for Newton I. Steers, Jr., intervenor.
Robert J. Gerstung, Baltimore, Md., for Robert P. Conrad and Thomas C. Hofstetter, intervenors.
Paul Berman and Melvin J. Sykes, Baltimore, Md., for George H. Fallon, Samuel N. Friedel, Edward A. Garmatz, Clarence D. Long and Carlton R. Sickles, intervenors.
George L. Russell, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for Verda Welcome and others, intervenors.
Brent Bozell, Bethesda, Md., intervenor, pro se.
Walter L. Green, Hyattsville, Md., intervenor, pro se.
Before SOBELOFF, Chief Circuit Judge, THOMSEN, Chief Judge, and NORTHROP, District Judge.
United States District Court D. Maryland.
PER CURIAM.
Legal questions apart, no court, federal or state, will accept with any degree of satisfaction a call to redistrict the state for congressional elections — a task primarily legislative in character. With similar reluctance will a court contemplate a proposal to order elections at large, with the consequent lessening of direct contacts between representatives and their constituents, and other disadvantages which have been often pointed out and need...
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