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DOULIN v. WHITE

Civ. A. No. LR-C-81-418.

528 F.Supp. 1323 (1982)

Edwin C. DOULIN, Helen Lee Adair, Edward F. Ball, William Joseph Barnes, Don E. Davis, Earl W. Harris, Roger D. Harrod, Richard D. Love, Sharon K. Trusty, Nora M. Waye, Almeda Ann Wagner, Analee Vaught, and Clara White, Plaintiffs, v. Frank WHITE, Governor of the State of Arkansas; Winston Bryant, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Arkansas; Steve Clark, Attorney General of the State of Arkansas; Paul Riviere, Secretary of State of the State of Arkansas; Julia Hughes Jones, State Auditor of the State of Arkansas; Jimmie Lou Fisher, State Treasurer of the State of Arkansas; Bill McCuen, State Land Commissioner of the State of Arkansas; Herby Branscum, Chairman of the State Democratic Central Committee of the State of Arkansas; Harlan "Bo" Holleman, Chairman of the State Republican Central Committee of the State of Arkansas; Joe Basore, Citizen of the State of Arkansas; E. J. Jacobs, Citizen of the State of Arkansas; Stark Ligon, Citizen of the State of Arkansas; all of the above being Commissioners of the State Board of Elections of the State of Arkansas, Defendants; Veo Easley, County Judge of Grant County, Arkansas, Plaintiff-Intervenor.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

January 5, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Walker, Heiskell, Donelson, Bearman, Adams, Williams, & Kirsch, John L. Ryder, Laughlin, Halle, Clark & Gibson, Memphis, Tenn., Stan Miller, Miller, Jones & Goldman, Hot Springs, Ark., for plaintiffs.

R. B. Friedlander and Debbie Nye, Asst. Attys. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.

Phillip H. Shirron, Sheridan, Ark., for plaintiff-intervenor Veo Easley.

Before ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, and OVERTON and WOODS, District Judges.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

The issue before the Court is the constitutionality of Act 965 of 1981, Arkansas's congressional reapportionment plan for the decade of the 1980's. The total percentage variance among the populations of the four congressional districts under this statute is 1.87%, and the total population variance in absolute numbers is 10,667. The General Assembly had before it two other plans with a substantially smaller variance — 0.78% and 0.75% respectively...

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