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TAYLOR v. McKEITHEN

No. 71-2783.

499 F.2d 893 (1974)

Dorothy TAYLOR et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Appellants, v. John J. McKEITHEN, Governor of Louisiana, et al., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees. Victor BUSSIE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Appellants, v. The GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA et al., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees (two cases). Emmitt J. DOUGLAS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Appellants, v. John J. McKEITHEN, Individually and as Governor of Louisiana, et al., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees. Carroll G. MILLER et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Appellants, v. GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA et al., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 21, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. McFerrin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, La., Adrian G. Duplantier, Nat G. Kiefer, Michael H. O'Keefe, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellants.

Claude Berwick Duval, Houma, La., amicus curiae.

Stanley A. Halpin, Jr., New Orleans, La., Camille F. Gravel, Jr., Alexandria, La., Sam A. LeBlanc, III, New Orleans, La., Murphy W. Bell, Baton Rouge, La., Martin L. Feldman, Robert F. Collins, George M. Strickler, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This case involves a racial gerrymander not by a state legislature but by a federal district court. The trial judge was well intentioned, of course, but his plan for drawing the boundaries of four state senate voting districts in New Orleans cannot be considered "benign districting" as the Supreme Court used that term in remanding this case to the Court of Appeals.

This litigation started as a frontal attack on the self-reapportionment...

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