COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA EX REL. SPECTER v. LEVIN

Civ. A. No. 72-402.

359 F.Supp. 12 (1973)

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA ex rel. Arlen SPECTER, District Attorney of Philadelphia County, Individually and in behalf of the citizens of the County of Philadelphia and all other persons similarly situated, et al. v. A. Leo LEVIN, Chairman et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

May 8, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin H. Belsky, Asst. Dist. Atty., Louis W. Fryman, Becker, Fryman & Ervais, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Harold E. Kohn, Thomas N. O'Neill, Jr., Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.

Before ALDISERT, Circuit Judge, and VanARTSDALEN and GREEN, District Judges.


OPINION

VanARTSDALEN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, in this "Civil Rights Class Action" seek to have declared unconstitutional, as violating the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, the Final Reapportionment Plan of the Pennsylvania State Legislative Reapportionment Commission, filed on December 29, 1971. The "Plan" established the geographical boundaries for the Pennsylvania state senatorial and

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