IN RE APPORTIONMENT — 1982

Docket No. 68777, (Calendar No. 1).

413 Mich. 96 (1982)

321 N.W.2d 565

In re APPORTIONMENT OF STATE LEGISLATURE — 1982

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 25, 1982.

Appeal dismissed October 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Gary P. Gordon, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the Attorney General.

Lewis, Adams, Goodrich & Tait (by Robert L. Henry, Jr.), for Republican members of the Apportionment Commission.

Marston, Sachs, Nunn, Kates, Kadushin & O'Hare, P.C. (by Theodore Sachs), for Democratic members of the Apportionment Commission.

Robert A. Sedler, Edward J. Littlejohn, and Hall & Bilicki, P.C. (by Elliott S. Hall), for Coleman A. Young, Mayor of the City of Detroit, and for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Miguel Ortiz for Southwest Committee for Fair Representation.


Appeal dismissed by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 12, 1982.

PER CURIAM:

The Constitution of 1963, art 4, §§ 2-6, provides that, following the decennial census, the Commission on Legislative Apportionment1 shall establish House and Senate districts in accordance with rules there prescribed for districting and apportionment. If a majority of the commission cannot agree upon a reapportionment plan, then...

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