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JAMERSON v. WOMACK

Record No. 920460.

423 S.E.2d 180 (1992)

W.E. JAMERSON, et al., v. Pamela M. WOMACK, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 6, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank M. Slayton, South Boston (J. William Watson, Jr., Halifax, James W. Hopper, Richmond, Vaughan & Slayton, South Boston, Edmunds & Watson, Halifax, Parvin, Wilson, Barnett & Hopper, Richmond, on brief), for appellants.

Gregory E. Lucyk, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., Stephen D. Rosenthal, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Gail Starling Marshall, Deputy Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.

WHITING, Justice.

In this suit, we decide whether the chancellor erred in holding that the General Assembly's 1991 reapportionment act (the 1991 plan) did not violate the compactness requirements of Article II, § 6 of the Constitution of Virginia in fixing the boundary lines of two of the forty senatorial districts.1

W.E. Jamerson and 33 other residents, taxpayers, and "duly qualified" voters in the 15th and 18th Senatorial...

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