Fay v. St. Louis County Board of Commissioners

OPINION

TOUSSAINT, Chief Judge.

On appeal from the district court’s invalidation of the county board’s redistricting plan and subsequent appointment of a redistricting commission, appellant county board argues that a redistricting plan with a ten-percent-or-less-population deviation among districts is prima facie valid and may be implemented with no justification by the board. Because we find no error in the district court’s findings and conclusion that the board failed to satisfy the standards of the Minnesota county-redistricting statute, we affirm the court’s determination that the plan is…