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SIMON v. LAFAYETTE PARISH POLICE JURY

Civ. A. No. 9100.

226 F.Supp. 301 (1964)

J. Minos SIMON v. LAFAYETTE PARISH POLICE JURY et al.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Lafayette Division.

January 14, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simon & Trice, J. Minos Simon, Lafayette, La., for plaintiff.

Bertrand DeBlanc, Dist. Atty., Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Lafayette, La., for "Police Jury and Members Thereof".

Jack P. F. Gremillion and George M. Ponder, Baton Rouge, La., and William P. Schuler, Arabi, La., for all defendants.

PUTNAM, District Judge.

By this suit plaintiff seeks to bring about a redistricting of the wards contained within the geographical boundaries of the parish of Lafayette, Louisiana, to correct what is alleged to be an invidious discrimination against the electors residing within the Third Ward, wherein complainant resides, because of grossly unequal voting power resulting from population changes within the parish which have occurred during the past twenty years. Members...

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