FRANKLIN, SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, et al.
v.
MASSACHUSETTS et al.
United States Supreme Court.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 21, 1992.
Decided June 26, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Deputy Solicitor General Roberts argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Starr, Assistant Attorney General Gerson, Edwin S. Kneedler, Michael Jay Singer, and Mark B. Stern.
Dwight Golann, Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the briefs were Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, Steve Berenson, Assistant Attorney General, and John P. Driscoll, Jr., Edward P. Leibensperger, and Neil P. Motenko, Special Assistant Attorneys General.*
O'Connor, J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I and II, in which Rehnquist, C. J.,and White, Scalia, and Thomas, JJ., joined, the opinion of the Court with respect to Part IV, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and White, Blackmun, Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, and Thomas, JJ., joined, and an opinion with respect to Part III, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and White and Thomas, JJ., joined. Stevens, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, in which Blackmun, Kennedy, and Souter, JJ., joined, p. 807. Scalia, J.,filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, p. 823.
United States Supreme Court.
Justice O'Connor delivered the opinion of the Court, except as to Part III.
As one season follows another, the decennial census has again generated a number of reapportionment controversies. This decade, as a result of the 1990 census and reapportionment, Massachusetts lost a seat in the House of Representatives. Appellees Massachusetts and two of its registered voters brought this action against the President, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary), Census Bureau...
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