CONNOR v. JOHNSON

Civ. A. No. 3830.

279 F.Supp. 619 (1966)

Peggy J. CONNOR et al., Plaintiffs, v. Paul B. JOHNSON et al., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

September 30, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin J. Bronstein, Jackson, Miss., and Peter Marcuse, Waterbury, Conn., R. Jess Brown, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, and Martin R. McLendon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants.

Before COLEMAN, Circuit Judge, and WILLIAM HAROLD COX and DAN M. RUSSELL, District Judges.


PER CURIAM:

I

As a result of the decennial census of 1960 and pursuant to the Act of Congress of June 18, 1929, 46 Stat. 21-27, as amended by the Act of November 15, 1941, 55 Stat. 761, 2 U.S.C.A., Section 2a, the number of Representatives in Congress to which the State of Mississippi is entitled was reduced from six to five. For Mississippi this was the third reduction in thirty years. Forty years ago, Mississippi had 8 Representatives in Congress, Florida...

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