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CHAVIS v. WHITCOMB

Nos. IP 69-C-23, 115 and 140.

305 F.Supp. 1359 (1969)

Patrick CHAVIS et al., Plaintiffs, v. Edgar D. WHITCOMB, Governor of the State of Indiana, Defendant, and John C. Ruckelshaus et al., Intervening Defendants. CENTRAL CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE et al., Plaintiffs, v. Edgar D. WHITCOMB, Governor of the State of Indiana, Defendant. Carl DORTCH et al., Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. Richard G. LUGAR et al., Defendants-Respondents, and Jerome Forestal et al., Defendants-Petitioners.

United States District Court S. D. Indiana, Indianapolis Division.

June 18, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Beatty, Bamberger & Feibleman, James Manahan, Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiffs.

Richard C. Johnson, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., for defendant.

William K. Byrum, Fulmer, Burris & Byrum, Indianapolis, Ind., for intervening defendants.

Before KERNER, Circuit Judge, STECKLER, Chief District Judge, and NOLAND, District Judge.

OPINION AND ORDER

KERNER, Circuit Judge.

These cases come before the Court on its own motion as to the first one and on motion in the other two to consider and decide whether this three-judge district court has jurisdiction over them and is properly convened under 28 U.S.C. § 2281.

All three cases raise, inter alia, the common question of whether or not certain existing or future statutory apportionments of the electors for various elected...

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