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GOOD v. AUSTIN

No. 91-CV-74754DT.

800 F.Supp. 557 (1992)

Larry GOOD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Richard H. AUSTIN, Secretary of State, Defendant. George Arthur VAN STRATEN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Richard H. AUSTIN, Secretary of State, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. and W.D. Michigan.

May 20, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore Sachs, Sachs, Waldman, O'Hare, Helveston, Hodges & Barnes, Detroit, Mich., for Good plaintiffs.

Peter H. Ellsworth, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Lansing, Mich., for Van Straten plaintiffs.

Gary P. Gordon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lansing, Mich., for defendant Richard H. Austin.

John D. Pirich, Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn, Lansing, Mich., for intervenor Representative Dennis M. Hertel.

William J. Perrone, Dykema Gossett, Lansing, Mich., for intervenor Representative Bob Carr.

George Brookover, East Lansing, Mich., for intervenor Senator Carl Levin.

Before RYAN, Circuit Judge, and NEWBLATT and ROBERT HOLMES BELL, District Judges.

OPINION

For the third consecutive decade, the Michigan Legislature has failed to enact a law apportioning Michigan's congressional districts. That failure has generated these consolidated cases in which two groups of plaintiffs, suing separately, have asked the court to declare the current apportionment of Michigan's congressional districts unconstitutional and to adopt a new districting plan.

On April 6, 1992, we entered a judgment holding that Michigan...

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