In re PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS REAPPORTIONMENT CASES.
United States District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
March 23, 1982.
March 23, 1982.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Irving L. Bloom, Westmoreland County Sol., Greensburg, Pa., for plaintiffs Ted Simon, John W. Regoli, and Robert H. Miller, individually and as the Board of Com'rs of Westmoreland County, Pa., Clarence H. Carns, Joseph H. Deeds, and Leon T. Smithley, individually and as Bd. of Sup'rs of Ligonier Tp., Westmoreland County, Pa., John E. St. Clair, Homer C. Burkett, individually and as the Bd. of Sup'rs of Fairfield Tp., Westmoreland County, Pa.
Michael T. McCarthy, Chief Counsel to Senate Democratic Floor Leader, Ronald W. Andidora, Asst., Harrisburg, Pa., for plaintiffs James R. Kelley, James E. Ross and Mark S. Singel, State Senator, of Com. of Pa.
William J. Peters, Foulkrod, Peters & Wasilefski, Harrisburg, Pa., David J. Armstrong, Eugene F. Scanlon, Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs Doug Walgren, an individual, and the United States Representative of the Eighteenth Congressional Dist. of Com. of Pa., Ross C. Feltz, an individual; and Jese Del Gre, an individual.
Louis J. Adler, Harrisburg, Pa., for plaintiff intervenors Richard Gerber and Anna M. Miller.
Mary Ellen Krober, Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants William R. Davis, Secretary of the Com. of Pa., Richard Anderson, Com'r of Bureau of Elections for Com. of Pa., Dick Thornburg, Governor of Com. of Pa.
Fred Speaker, Larry L. Miller, Pepper, Hamilton & Sheetz, Harrisburg, Pa., for defendant intervenors The Honorable Joseph M. McDade, The Honorable Lawrence Coughlin, The Honorable Gus Yatron, The Honorable Bud Shuster, The Honorable William F. Goodling, The Honorable Robert S. Walker, The Honorable William E. Clinger, Jr., The Honorable Donald L. Ritter, The Honorable James K. Coyne, The Honorable Thomas M. Foglietta, and The Honorable Eugene V. Atkinson.
Jack H. France, Murphy, France & Vanderman, Charleroi, Pa., for defendant intervenor Austin J. Murphy.
Before WEIS, Circuit Judge, NEALON, Chief District Judge and RAMBO, District Judge.
United States District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.
PER CURIAM.
The 1980 census revealed a decline in Pennsylvania's population that required the number of congressional districts to be reduced from 25 to 23. After spirited and sometimes acrimonious debate, the state legislature enacted a reapportionment statute which was signed by the Governor. Act of March 3, 1982, P.L. ___, No. 42, (hereafter Act No. 42).
These consolidated cases attack the constitutionality of Act No. 42. Plaintiffs are incumbent members...
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