Legal Opinion
Folts v. City of Richmond
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided November 5, 1979No. Civ. A. 79-0842-RPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
WARRINER, District Judge.
I
On 10 October 1979 plaintiff Meade C. Folts, a voter in the Ninth Ward of the City of Richmond, Virginia, filed a Bill for a Declaratory Judgment in Division II of the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond. Named as defendants were the City of Richmond, the nine members of the Richmond City Council, the City Attorney, and the City Manager. Plaintiff alleged that the wards are malapportioned, and that plaintiff and all registered voters of the Ninth Ward are underrepresented in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the…
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