BURTON v. SHEHEEN

Civ. A. Nos. 3:91-2983-1, 3:91-3310-1 and 3:91-3635-1.

793 F.Supp. 1329 (1992)

Michael G. BURTON, as Executive Director and on Behalf of the REPUBLICAN PARTY, et al., Plaintiffs, Kimberly T. Burch, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Robert J. SHEHEEN, in his representative capacity as Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives, et al., Defendants, Robin Tallon, Neil A. Vander Linden, Forrest E. Ott, Philip T. Jones, Ann Y. Hart, Peggy A. Dufek, Gwendolyn L. Grooms, the South Carolina Senate, the Democratic Party of South Carolina, Defendants-Intervenors. Katharine I. Butler, Amicus Curiae. STATEWIDE REAPPORTIONMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Carroll A. CAMPBELL, Jr., et al., Defendants. Katharine I. Butler, Amicus Curiae. Bufort BLANTON, Neil A. Vander Linden, Forrest E. Ott, Ann Y. Hart, Peggy A. Dufek and Vincent Johnson, Plaintiffs, v. Carroll A. CAMPBELL, Jr., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

May 1, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Gottshall, Steve Allen Matthews, Sinkler And Boyd, Columbia, S.C., for plaintiffs.

Laughlin McDonald, American Civil Liberties Union, Atlanta, Ga., Willie Abrams, Dennis Courtland Hayes, NAACP, Baltimore, Md., John Roy Harper, II, Columbia, S.C., for Statewide Reapportionment Advisory Committee.

Edwin E. Evans, Columbia, S.C., Robert Erving Stepp, Terrell Lyles Glenn, Sr., Elizabeth Howard Simmons, Blaney A. Coskrey, III, Glenn, Irvin, Murphy, Gray & Stepp, John C. Moylan, III, Lieutenant Governor's Office, Columbia, S.C., for defendants Robert J. Sheheen and Nick Theodore.

Frederick Aubrey Crawford, Columbia, S.C., Robert N. Hunter, Jr., Patton, Boggs & Blow, Greensboro, N.C., Clyde Havird Jones, Jr., Joseph Dawson Shine, Columbia, S.C., for defendants Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. and James B. Ellisor.

Katharine I. Butler, pro se.

Vinton Devane Lide, Michael Hart Montgomery, Lide, Montgomery & Potts, P.C., for defendant-intervenor Robin Tallon.

Hans F. Paul, North Charleston, S.C., Gedney M. Howe, III, Charleston, S.C., Wallace K. Lightsey, Frank S. Holleman, III, Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, P.A., Greenville, S.C., for defendants-intervenors.

Roger E. Henderson, Leppard, Henderson & Spencer, Chesterfield, S.C., for plaintiff-intervenor Kimberly T. Burch.

Before HAMILTON, Circuit Judge, HAWKINS, Chief District Judge, and ANDERSON, District Judge.


ORDER

In these consolidated cases, the court is called upon to either adopt or create plans for the redistricting1 of South Carolina's Senate, House of Representatives, and Congressional districts. Following tabulation of the 1990 decennial census, it was apparent the existing Senate, House, and Congressional plans could not be continued.2 Although the South Carolina General Assembly passed new Senate and...

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