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BACON v. CARLIN

Civ. A. No. 83-4233.

575 F.Supp. 763 (1983)

Robert C. BACON, Charles Bussing, Martha Masington, Larry Plaggerman, Clyde A. Townsend and all persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. John CARLIN, Governor of the State of Kansas, Jack H. Brier, Secretary of State of the State of Kansas, Ross O. Doyen, President of the Kansas Senate, Mike Hayden, Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, Dan Thiessen, Chairman of the Kansas Senate Committee on Legislative and Congressional Apportionment, and Edgar Moore, Chairman of the Kansas House Committee on Legislative and Congressional Apportionment, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

December 21, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman E. Gaar of Gaar & Bell, Overland Park, Kansas (Kerry Patrick, Overland Park, Kansas, Joseph A. Knopp of Everett, Seaton, Knopp & Thompson, Manhattan, Kansas, and Richard A. Pinaire of Hoover, Schermerhorn, Edwards & Pinaire, Junction City, Kansas, with him on the briefs), for plaintiffs.

Jeffrey S. Southard, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert T. Stephan, Atty. Gen., with him on briefs), Topeka, Kansas, for defendants.

Linda R. Johnson filed an amicus brief for the League of Women Voters of Kansas, Topeka, Kan.

Before LOGAN, Circuit Judge, O'CONNOR, Chief Judge, and ROGERS, District Judge.

LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, five qualified Kansas voters, have brought this suit challenging the constitutionality of the present apportionment scheme of the Kansas Senate and House of Representatives. Defendants are the Governor of Kansas, the Secretary of State, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the chairmen of the House and Senate Committees on Legislative and Congressional Apportionment. The parties argued the...

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