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MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR A REP. GEN. A. v. GOVERNOR OF MD.

No. 14599.

429 F.2d 606 (1970)

MARYLAND CITIZENS FOR A REPRESENTATIVE GENERAL ASSEMBLY et al., Appellants, v. GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 9, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin H. Freeman, Upper Marlboro, Md., for appellants.

Henry R. Lord, Asst. Atty. Gen., Maryland, and Richard R. Goldberg, Asst. City Solicitor of Baltimore, Md. (Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Robert F. Sweeney, Deputy Atty. Gen. of Maryland, George L. Russell, Jr., City Solicitor of Baltimore, Md., Ambrose T. Hartman, Deputy City Solicitor of Baltimore, Md., and A. Douglas Owens, Asst. City Solicitor of Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and WINTER and CRAVEN, Circuit Judges.

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal from the dismissal by a single federal district judge of a complaint seeking (1) a declaration that the statute apportioning Maryland's General Assembly is unconstitutional, (2) an injunction restraining Maryland's election officials from conducting the 1970 primary and general elections for the General Assembly under that statute, and (3) a directive to Maryland to conduct the 1970 elections in accordance with a new, constitutional...

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