STATE EX REL. LOCKERT v. CROWELL


656 S.W.2d 836 (1983)

STATE of Tennessee, ex rel. W.B. LOCKERT, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gentry CROWELL, Secretary of State of the State of Tennessee, et al., Defendants-Appellants, and Tennessee Voters' Council, Defendants-Intervenors.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

September 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Perry, Jr., Ashland City, Robert T. Rochelle, Lebanon, W. Henry Haile, Nashville, Olen G. Haynes, Hicks, Arnold, Haynes & Sanders, Johnson City, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Randall E. Nichols, Harwell & Nichols, Knoxville, for amicus curiae, Citizens for Fair Dist. Representation.

William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen. and Reporter, Nashville, Robert B. Littleton, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Nashville, Michael W. Catalano, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for defendants-appellants.

Richard H. Dinkins, Williams & Dinkins, Nashville, Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Napoleon B. Williams, Jr. Attys. at Law, New York City, for defendants-intervenors.


OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

This is a continuation of State ex rel. Lockert v. Crowell, 631 S.W.2d 702 (Tenn. 1982) [Lockert I] wherein we overruled a summary judgment holding unconstitutional the Senate Reapportionment Act, Chapter 538, Public Acts 1981 and remanded for a full evidentiary hearing because the majority of the Court believed there were disputed questions...

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