BEENS v. ERDAHL

No. 4-71-Civil 151.

336 F.Supp. 715 (1972)

Richard A. BEENS et al., Plaintiffs, v. Arlen ERDAHL, Secretary of State of the State of Minnesota, et al., Defendants, The Sixty-seventh Minnesota State Senate, Intervenor, Roland H. Crawford, et al., Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Fourth Division.

January 25, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan W. Weinblatt, Berde, Leonard & Weinblatt, St. Paul, Minn., for Richard A. Beens, and others.

John M. Mason, Sol. Gen., St. Paul, Minn., for Arlen Erdahl.

Robert O. O'Neill, Scott County Atty., Shakopee, Minn., for Joseph W. Noterman, Scott County Auditor.

William Young, Asst. Hennepin County Atty., Minneapolis, Minn., for George B. Hickey, Hennepin County Auditor.

W. R. Glaeser, Carver County Atty., Chaska, Minn., for William J. Schneider, Carver County Auditor.

Robert M. A. Johnson, Jr., Asst. Anoka County Atty., Anoka, Minn., for Charles LeFebvre, Anoka County Auditor.

Frank Hammond, Richard H. Kyle, Jr., Briggs & Morgan, St. Paul, Minn., for intervenors, Crawford, King and Voss.

H. Blair Klein, Bruce D. Campbell, St. Paul, Minn., for intervenor Sixty-seventh Minnesota State Senate.

James T. Hale and Gregory R. Howard, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., for Democratic Farmer Labor Party of Minnesota and others, amicus curiae.

A. M. Keith, Rochester, Minn., for Americans for Democratic Action, Minnesota Chapter, amicus curiae.

Jack Fena, in pro. per. and for Rudy Perpich, Hibbing, and Earl B. Gustafson, Harper, Eaton, Gustafson & Wilson, Duluth, Minn., for Rudy Perpich and Jack Fena, amicus curiae.

Joseph P. Summers, Rosen, Ravich & Summers, St. Paul, Minn., for Minnesota Farmers' Union and others, amicus curiae.

Joseph A. Maun, Lawrence J. Hayes and Garrett E. Mulrooney, Maun, Hazel, Green, Hayes, Simons & Aretz, St. Paul, Minn., for Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation, amicus curiae.

Before HEANEY, Circuit Judge, DEVITT, Chief District Judge, and LARSON, District Judge.


ORDER AND PLAN OF APPORTIONMENT

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

This action has been pending for nearly ten months. During that time, there have been many hearings, as well as numerous briefs and motions. In order to clarify the nature of the problem involved and the Court's resolution of that problem, we outline the history of the litigation.

On April 9, 1971, the plaintiffs filed...

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