DUNGAN v. SAWYER

Civ. No. 695.

253 F.Supp. 352 (1966)

Flora DUNGAN, also known as Flora Oncken, and C. W. Woodbury, M. D., Plaintiffs, v. Grant SAWYER, Governor of the State of Nevada, John Koontz, Secretary of the State of Nevada, Paul Laxalt, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Nevada, Michael Mirabelli, Treasurer of the State of Nevada, and Members of and the Legislature of the State of Nevada, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Nevada.

March 21, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boyd & Leavitt, Las Vegas, Nev., for plaintiffs.

Harvey Dickerson, Atty. Gen. of Nevada, Carson City, Nev., Vargas, Dillon, Bartlett & Dixon, Reno, Nev., Alvin N. Wartman, G. William Coulthard, Las Vegas, Nev., for defendants.

Before BARNES, Circuit Judge, and FOLEY, Jr. and THOMPSON, District Judges.


PER CURIAM.

In its opinion filed September 23, 1965, D.C., 250 F.Supp. 480, this Court held that certain provisions of Nevada's constitution and statutes pertaining to legislative apportionment violated the equal protective clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and were invidiously discriminatory, being based upon no constitutionally valid policy...

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