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GORIN v. KARPAN

No. 91-CV-0054-K.

775 F.Supp. 1430 (1991)

Sarah GORIN, Bern Hinckley, Chelsea R. Kesselheim, John M. Faunce, Linda Kirkbride, Jesse Guidry, Verna Crusch, Ernest A. Roybal, Chris Plant, Wayne E. Morrow, Larry W. McGonigal, and Teri J. Royer, Plaintiffs, Harriett Elizabeth "Liz" Byrd, Edith V. Garcia, Pat Hacker, Fred Harrison, Shirley J. Humphrey, Patrick F. O'Toole, Scott J. Ratliff, Bill Vasey, and Carol Watson, Intervening Plaintiffs, v. Kathy KARPAN, Wyoming Secretary of State in her individual official capacity and as a member of the State Canvassing Board, Michael J. Sullivan, Governor of the State of Wyoming in his individual official capacity and as a member of the State Canvassing Board; David Ferrari, Wyoming State Auditor in his individual official capacity and as a member of the State Canvassing Board, and Stan Smith, Wyoming State Treasurer in his individual official capacity and as a member of the State Canvassing Board, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Wyoming.

October 15, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven F. Freudenthal of Herschler, Freudenthal, Salzburg, Bonds & Rideout, P.C., Cheyenne, Wyo. (Hardy H. Tate, Sheridan, Wyo., William John Disney, Douglas, Wyo., with him on the briefs), for plaintiffs.

Ford T. Bussart of Greenhalgh, Bussart, West & Rosetti, P.C., Rock Springs, Wyo., Lisa A. Botham, Green River, Wyo., for intervening plaintiffs.

Mark Braden and Marc D. Flink of Baker & Hostetler, Denver, Colo. (Joseph B. Meyer, Wyo. Atty. Gen., Clinton D. Beaver, Wyo. Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Thomas B. Evans of Baker & Hostetler, Denver, Colo., with them on the briefs), for defendants.

Peter C. Maxfield, Laramie, Wyo., on the brief for amicus curiae Wyoming Democratic Party.

Before BRORBY, Circuit Judge, BRIMMER, Chief District Judge, and JOHNSON, District Judge.

BRORBY, Circuit Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case raises an equal protection challenge, based upon the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and provisions in the Wyoming Constitution, to the validity of Wyoming's 1991 Legislative Reapportionment Act.1

Plaintiffs Sarah Gorin, Bern Hinckley, Chelsea R. Kesselheim, John M. Faunce, Linda Kirkbride, Jesse Guidry, Verna Crusch, Ernest A. Roybal, Chris Plant...

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