MARYLAND CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR FAIR CONG. REDIST. v. TAWES

Civ. No. 15178.

253 F.Supp. 731 (1966)

MARYLAND CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR FAIR CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING, INC., a non-profit corporation, Roland I. Perusse, Mary W. Kaufman, and Milton F. Lunch v. J. Millard TAWES, as Governor of the State of Maryland, and Lloyd Simpkins, as Secretary of State of the State of Maryland.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

May 3, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. French, Washington, D. C., Alfred L. Scanlan, Bethesda, Md., and Shea & Gardner, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, and Robert F. Sweeney, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., for defendants.

A. Adgate Duer and Robert C. Prem, Baltimore, Md., for Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., and Rogers C. B. Morton, intervening plaintiffs.

Hervey G. Machen, Hyattsville, Md., pro se, intervening defendant.

Patrick F. X. McGucken, Emmitsburg, Md., pro se, intervening plaintiff.

George Cochran Doub and Weinberg & Green, Baltimore, Md., for Clarence D. Long, intervening plaintiff.

Paul Berman and Melvin J. Sykes, Baltimore, Md., for George H. Fallon, Edward A. Garmatz and Samuel N. Friedel, intervening defendants.

John W. Hardwicke, Webster, Harford Co., Md., pro se, intervening plaintiff.

Marvin H. Smith, Denton, Md., for Republican State Central Committee, intervening plaintiff.

Walter L. Green, Hyattsville, Md., pro se, intervening defendant.

Juanita Jackson Mitchell and Archie D. Williams, Baltimore, Md., for Carl J. Murphy and others, intervening plaintiffs.

Bennett Crain, Jr., County Sol., and Joseph Charles Jacobs, Asst. County Sol., Annapolis, Md., for Joseph W. Alton, Jr., County Executive of Anne Arundel County, intervening plaintiff.

Wilbur R. Dulin, Annapolis, Md., for Joseph N. Collison, intervening plaintiff.

Before SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge, and THOMSEN and NORTHROP, District Judges.


SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge.

More than two years ago this three-judge District Court was convened pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 2281 and 2284 to consider and act upon a complaint attacking the validity of Maryland's congressional districting law, Chap. 739, § 1, Acts 1957; Art. 33, §§ 159-166, Ann. Code of Md., 1957. After taking testimony and hearing arguments of the parties and numerous intervenors, the court decided on March 21, 1964, that the plan...

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