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CONNOR v. FINCH

Civ. A. No. 3830(A).

419 F.Supp. 1072 (1976)

Peggy J. CONNOR et al., Plaintiffs, v. Cliff FINCH et al., Defendants, and United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor.

United States District Court, S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

August 24, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank R. Parker and John L. Maxey, II, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Gerald W. Jones and Michael D. Johnson, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for United States.

A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen. of Miss., William A. Allain and Giles W. Bryant, Jackson, Miss., for defendants.

Before COLEMAN, Circuit Judge, and RUSSELL and COX, District Judges.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

For the 1979 quadrennial Mississippi legislative elections, our task is to reapportion both Houses of the Mississippi Legislature.1

I. The Directions of the Supreme Court, May 19, 1976

In an opinion dated May 19, 1976,2 the Supreme Court held that this task should be performed agreeably to the teachings of Mahan v. Howell,3

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