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La PORTE COUNTY REP. COMMITTEE v. BOARD OF COM'RS

No. 94-1954.

43 F.3d 1126 (1994)

LA PORTE COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE, Charles W. Morgan, and Bart Lombard, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF LA PORTE and La Porte County Election Board, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 16, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Bopp, Jr. (argued), John K. Abegg, Bopp, Coleson and Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Eric F. Yandt, Shaw R. Friedman, Yandt & Friedman, La Porte, IN, Carmen M. Piasecki, Eugenia S. Schwartz (argued), Nickle & Piasecki, South Bend, IN, Greta S. Friedman, Boklund, Yandt & Friedman, La Porte, IN, for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and ENGEL and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

The legislature of La Porte County, Indiana, is a three-member Board of Commissioners. Although the County has three districts, all elections are held at large, for staggered four-year terms. The districts therefore affect only the residence of the Commissioners (each of whom must live in a different district); all residents of the County may vote for each of the three positions. Because voters...

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