ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
This is a case of re-reapportionment; it raises the issue whether the trial court properly ordered a new apportionment of a public body that had been reapportioned five years earlier in accordance with its own prior order. Because the procedure followed was improper, we remand for a hearing and reconsideration.
Plaintiffs, a class composed of black citizens of DeSoto Parish, first challenged the constitutionality of the apportionment...
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