WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO v. ELECTIONS BD.

Civ. A. No. 82-C-0113.

543 F.Supp. 630 (1982)

The WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO, John W. Schmitt as its president and individually, and Jack B. Reihl as its secretary-treasurer and individually; the United Auto Workers Union, Region 10, Ralph W. Koenig as its director and individually, and William Troestler as the coordinator of its Community Action Program and individually; the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and Matthew Flynn as its chairman and individually; Ronald J. De Lain as the Clerk of Brown County and individually; Gary R. George as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and individually; and, John Brogan, Plaintiffs, v. ELECTIONS BOARD, an independent agency of the State of Wisconsin; its chairman, William Mattka; each of its members individually, Gary Aamodt, Stephen A. Beyer, Gregory B. Conway, Esther Kaplan, James Murphy, John Niebler, and Helen Sigmund; and, its executive secretary, Gerald J. Ferwerda, Defendants, and the Republican Party of Wisconsin, the League of Women Voters, the City of Milwaukee, Clifford W. Krueger, Stephen R. Leopold, Thomas A. Hauke, Annette Polly Williams, Governor Lee S. Dreyfus, Tommy G. Thompson, Donald J. Hannaway, Fred A. Risser and Ed G. Jackamonis, Intervening parties.

United States District Court, E. D. Wisconsin.

Order Filed June 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon P. Axelrod, Madison, Wis., for plaintiffs.

F. Joseph Sensenbrenner, Deputy Atty. Gen., Madison, Wis., for defendants.

Before BAUER, Circuit Judge, and GORDON and EVANS, District Judges.


DECISION and ORDER

In 1972 the Wisconsin Legislature enacted legislation to reapportion the state's 33 Senate districts and 99 Assembly districts on the basis of the 1970 census. See Wis. Stat. § 4.001(1). The 1972 legislative elections and subsequent legislative elections have been conducted under the district boundaries established by the Wisconsin Legislature in 1972.

In 1980, the Bureau of the Census, United States Department of Commerce, conducted...

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