BUCKLEY v. HOFF

Civ. A. No. 3653.

234 F.Supp. 191 (1964)

T. Garry BUCKLEY, Janette N. Berry, and James E. Fitzpatrick, Plaintiffs, v. Philip H. HOFF, Governor of Vermont, Howard E. Armstrong, Secretary of State of the State of Vermont, Samuel A. Parsons, as Town Clerk of the Town of Hubbardton, Virginia L'Eucyer, as County Clerk for the County of Grand Isle, Defendants, Leroy E. Lawrence, Erma Puffer, Samuel A. Parsons, Austin T. Foster, Lawrence Franklin, John D. Masterton, Russell Holmes, Stoyan Christowe, Cornelius Granai and Roger L. MacBride, Defendants-Intervenors, Harley Walter Kidder; Vermont League of Women Voters, Amici Curiae.

United States District Court D. Vermont.

July 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Luke Crispe, Brattleboro, Vt., Joseph E. Frank, Richard H. Thomas, III, Burlington, Vt. for plaintiffs.

Charles E. Gibson, Jr., Atty. Gen., Chester S. Ketcham, Deputy Atty. Gen., for defendants Hoff and Armstrong.

Edmunds, Austin & Wick, Burlington, Vt., Hilton A. Wick, Burlington, Vt., of counsel, for defendant Parsons.

Harold C. Roberts, South Hero, Vt., for defendant L'Eucyer.

Hilton A. Wick, of Edmunds, Austin & Wick, Robert H. Erdmann, John T. Ewing, Burlington, Vt., Philip A. Kolvoord, Essex Junction, Vt., Austin T. Foster, Derby Line, Vt., for defendants-intervenors.

Harley Walter Kidder, Barre, amicus curiae, pro se.

Joseph A. McNamara, Burlington, Vt., for Vermont League of Women Voters, amicus curiae.

Before WATERMAN and SMITH, Circuit Judges, and ANDERSON, District Judge.


WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.

On January 22, 1963, the original plaintiffs, T. Garry Buckley, a resident, voter, and taxpayer of the Town of Bennington in Bennington County, and Janette N. Berry, a resident, voter, and taxpayer of the Town of Brattleboro in Windham County, filed their complaint in their own behalf and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated challenging the apportionment of the General Assembly of...

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