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SWANSON v. STATE OF ILLINOIS

Nos. 63 C 2303, 63 C 2314.

226 F.Supp. 699 (1964)

Rosalie E. SWANSON, Plaintiff, v. The STATE OF ILLINOIS, Charles F. Carpentier, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, Otto Kerner, Governor of the State of Illinois, Defendants. Leland L. CHESLEY, Plaintiff, v. Otto KERNER, Governor of the State of Illinois, and Charles F. Carpentier, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

February 28, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren L. Swanson, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff Swanson.

Alan S. Ganz and Bernard Wiczer, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff, Chesley, Norville, Walsh & Case, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Wm. G. Clark, Atty. Gen., William C. Wines, Raymond S. Sarnow, Edward V. Hanrahan, Richard A. Michael, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel, for defendants State of Illinois and Governor Kerner.

Don H. Reuben, Jack S. Levin, Lawrence Gunnels, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Carpentier, Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Before CASTLE, Circuit Judge, and HOFFMAN and WILL, District Judges.

WILL, District Judge.

These cases have their genesis in the failure of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois to reapportion the State's House of Representatives during the 1963 legislative session as required and directed by Art. IV, §§ 7 and 8, of the Illinois Constitution of 1870, as amended, S.H.A.1

During the final days of the regular session of the Seventy-Third General Assembly, the two Houses of the Illinois...

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