HOLLOWAY v. HECHLER

Civ. A. No. 2:92-0081.

817 F.Supp. 617 (1992)

Peter HOLLOWAY, David Tyson, Chester L. Wollard, Marie Wollard, Mary Ann Osborne, T. David Higgins, Cary A. King and Opie Rollyson, Plaintiffs, v. Ken HECHLER, Secretary of State of the State of West Virginia, Robert "Chuck" Chambers, Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates, and Keith Burdette, President of the West Virginia Senate, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. West Virginia, Charleston.

September 29, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John N. Charnock, Jr., Charnock & Charnock, Charleston, WV, for plaintiffs.

Michael J. Basile, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard L. Gottlieb, Office of Atty. Gen., Charleston, WV, for defendant Ken Hechler.

M.E. Mowery, House Judiciary Committee, Michael Crane, Senate President's Office, Alison E. Patient, WV House of Delegates, House Finance Committee, Charleston, WV, for defendants Robert C. Chambers and Keith Burdette.

Before K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge, HADEN, Chief District Judge, and STAKER, District Judge.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

STAKER, District Judge.

In this action plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of Senate Bill 1 (S.B. 1), and House Bill 4043 (H.B. 4043), which were respectively enacted by the Legislature of the State of West Virginia (Legislature) on December 3, 1991 and January 13, 1992, and reapportioned the electoral districts for the Senate and the House of Delegates (Delegate) seats of the Legislature, effective beginning with the elections...

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