DUCKWORTH v. STATE ADMIN. BD. OF ELECTION LAWS

No. 02-1936.

332 F.3d 769 (2003)

Robert P. DUCKWORTH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE ADMINISTRATION BOARD OF ELECTION LAWS; Board of Supervisors of Elections for Anne Arundel County; John Willis, In his official capacity as Secretary of State, Defendants-Appellees, and Nancy Kopp, In her official capacity as Secretary of State, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: June 19, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: John R. Greiber, Jr., Greiber & Scheibe, Glen Burnie, Maryland, for Appellant. Steven Marshall Sullivan, Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Phillip F. Scheibe, Greiber & Scheibe, Glen Burnie, Maryland; Roy L. Mason, MASON, Ketterman & Cawood, P.A., Annapolis, Maryland, for Appellant. J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Maureen M. Dove, Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland; Robert A. Zarnoch, Assistant Attorney General, Kathryn M. Rowe, Assistant Attorney General, Annapolis, Maryland, for Appellees.

Before LUTTIG and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and GOODWIN, United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge LUTTIG wrote the opinion, in which Judge MICHAEL and Judge GOODWIN joined.

OPINION

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge:

This case presents the question of first impression before our court of whether a plaintiff can sustain his attack on the constitutionality of congressional district apportionment by alleging that the challenged districts are bizarrely drawn.

Appellant, Robert P. Duckworth, sued various Maryland agencies...

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