BAKER v. CARR

Civ. A. No. 2724.

247 F.Supp. 629 (1965)

Charles W. BAKER et al., Plaintiffs, v. Joe C. CARR et al., Defendants.

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

November 15, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Chandler, Memphis, Tenn., and Hobart F. Atkins, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Harris Gilbert, Nashville, Tenn., for intervening plaintiff Ben West.

E.K. Meacham and Eugene N. Collins, Chattanooga, Tenn., for intervening plaintiff City of Chattanooga.

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

Cecil Branstetter, Nashville, Tenn., for intervening plaintiff Tennessee State Labor Council, AFL-CIO.

Neill S. Brown, Director of Law, and Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr., Asst. Director of Law, Nashville, Tenn., for Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee.

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

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

Before PAUL C. WEICK, Circuit Judge, and MARION S. BOYD and WILLIAM E. MILLER, District Judges.


WILLIAM E. MILLER, District Judge:

Over six years ago Charles Baker and others filed the initial complaint in this action challenging the constitutionality of Tennessee's Legislative Apportionment Acts. Nearly two years ago this court stated, "malapportionment in Tennessee is an evil of long standing." D.C., 222 F.Supp. 684, 693 (1963). Plaintiffs allege that the evil still exists, and thus bring the issues once again before the...

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