LaCOMB v. GROWE

No. 4-81 Civ. 152.

541 F.Supp. 160 (1982)

Sharon LaCOMB, James A. Woolley and Phillip R. Krass, individually and on behalf of All Citizens and Voters of the State of Minnesota similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Joan GROWE, Secretary of State of Minnesota; Vernon T. Hoppe, Hennepin County Auditor; Charles R. Lefebvre, Anoka County Auditor; Thomas Hennen, Scott County Auditor; Carl D. Onishchuk, Dakota County Auditor, on behalf of themselves and all County Auditors of the State of Minnesota, Defendants, Martin Johnson, William Savage, and Patricia Wirtanen, Intervenors, Michael A. Hatch and Mary Monahan, Intervenors, Seventy-Second Minnesota State Senate, Amicus Curiae.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Fourth Division.

March 11, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan W. Weinblatt, Leonard & Weinblatt, St. Paul, Minn., for plaintiffs.

Warren R. Spannaus, Atty. Gen., and Douglas C. Blomgren and D. Douglas Blanke, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, Minn. for defendants Joan Growe, Charles R. Lefebvre, and Thomas Hennen.

Thomas L. Johnson, Hennepin County Atty., and James Bares, Asst. County Atty., Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant Vernon T. Hoppe.

Robert F. Carolan, Dakota County Atty., and James C. Backstrom, Asst. County Atty., Hastings, Minn., for defendant Carl D. Onishchuk.

Harold LeVander, Jr. and Daniel J. Beeson, LeVander, Gillen, Miller, Anderson & Kuntz, South St. Paul, Minn., intervenors Martin Johnson, William Savage, and Patricia Wirtanen.

John D. French, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., for intervenors Michael A. Hatch and Mary Monahan.

Before HEANEY, Circuit Judge, and MacLAUGHLIN and ALSOP, District Judges.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

The above-entitled action was commenced by the plaintiffs, Sharon LaComb, James A. Woolley and Phillip R. Krass, on March 26, 1981. In September of 1981, the parties entered into a stipulation which provided, inter alia, that the existing apportionment of legislative districts contravened the United States Constitution, Amendment XIV, Section 1, and the Minnesota Constitution, Article IV, Section...

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