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STATE EX REL. LOCKERT v. CROWELL

631 S.W.2d 702 (1982)

STATE of Tennessee ex rel. W.B. LOCKERT, Jr., District Attorney General for the 21st Judicial Circuit and Tom P. Thompson, Jr., District Attorney General for the 5th Judicial Circuit, Bill Jim Davis, Cheatham County, and Wilson County, K. Dickson Grissom, Denis Dozier Haile, George H. Harding and Don Simpson, individually and in his official capacity as County Judge of Wilson County, Tennessee (and each as individual plaintiff as well as relator), Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gentry CROWELL, Secretary of State of the State of Tennessee; Lamar Alexander, Governor of the State of Tennessee; William M. Leech, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Tennessee; David Collins, Coordinator of Elections of the State of Tennessee; and James E. Harpster, Jack C. Seaton, Tommy Powell, Richard Holcomb, and Lytle Landers, Commissioner of the State Board of Elections, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

March 31, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Rochelle, Lebanon, Robert L. Perry, Jr., Ashland City, Henry Haile, Nashville, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Carol L. McCoy, Nashville, for amicus curiae, League of Women Voters of Tenn.

James E. Lanier, Dyersburg, for amicus curiae, Dyer County.

Robert B. Littleton, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Michael Catalano, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for defendants-appellants.

Richard H. Dinkins, Nashville, Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, and Napoleon Williams, Legal Defense Fund New York City, for amicus curiae, Tennessee Voters Council and Unincorporated Ass'n by its General Chairman Avon N. Williams, Jr.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

This case comes to us on direct appeal1 from the Chancellor's grant of plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment. The primary question presented is the constitutionality of the Senate Reapportionment Act of 1981,2 which Act reapportioned the State Senate in response to the 1980 federal decennial census, as required by Art. II, &...

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