ADAMS v. CLINTON

Civil Action Nos. 98-1665-LFO, 98-2187-LFO.

26 F.Supp.2d 156 (1998)

Lois E. ADAMS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. William Jefferson CLINTON, et al., Defendants. Clifford ALEXANDER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. William M. DALEY, Secretary of Commerce, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

November 6, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George S. LaRoche, Takoma Park, MD, for plaintiffs in Adams.

Theodore C. Hirt, John Russell Tyler, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for William Jefferson Clinton and William M. Daley.

Kerry William Kircher, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC, for Robin H. Carle, and Wilson Livingood.

Daniel A. Rezneck, D.C. Financial Responsibility & Management Assist. Author., Washington, DC, for District of Columbia Financial Responsibility & Management Assist. Authority.

John Marshall Smallwood, Smallwood & Wells, Largo, MD, for American Friends Service Committee, Inc.

Charles Alvin Miller, Thomas Samuel Williamson, Jr., Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, for Covington and Burling.

Walter S. Smith, Jr., Office of Corp. Counsel, Washington, DC, for Corp. Counsel.


MEMORANDUM

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

Two complaints filed by two sets of residents of the District of Columbia allege that Congress has unconstitutionally excluded them from apportionment to a congressional district. Orders entered November 3, 1998, consolidated the cases. Preliminarily, both sets of plaintiffs request that their cases be set before a three-judge district court in the manner contemplated by 28 U.S.C. § 2284(b)(1). That statute...

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