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HISPANIC COALITION, ETC. v. LEG. REAPPOR. COM'N

Civ. A. No. 82-0480.

536 F.Supp. 578 (1982)

HISPANIC COALITION ON REAPPORTIONMENT; Alfred Delgado, Nitza Santiago, Nayda Cintron, and Julio Olmedo, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. LEGISLATIVE REAPPORTIONMENT COMMISSION; Democratic Party City Committee of Philadelphia; David Glancey and Robert O'Donnell in their official capacities, William R. Davis, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, his successor, if any, agents, assignees, and employees.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

April 6, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angel L. Ortiz, Philadelphia, Pa., Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Ed. Fund, Cesar Perales, Gabe Kaimowitz, Juan Cartagena, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Thomas N. O'Neill, Jr., Larry R. Barron, Philadelphia, Pa., for Legislative Reapportionment Commission.

Antoinette Stone, Philadelphia, Pa., for Democratic Party City Committee of Philadelphia, David Glancey and Robert O'Donnell.

John G. Knorr, III, Harrisburg, Pa., for William R. Davis, Secretary of the Com. of Pa.

Before GARTH, Circuit Judge, and LUONGO and BECHTLE, District Judges.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BECHTLE, District Judge.

The regrettable but inevitable disappointment that follows reapportionment has surfaced again in the case before us. Challenged are the district boundaries of a single seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Plaintiffs contend that those boundaries were designed with the purpose and effect of diluting or diffusing the Hispanic vote in a certain area of Philadelphia, in violation of Section 1983 of Title...

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