In re Ross Township Election District Reapportionment

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

A group of electors from Eoss Township appeals a decision of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, which accepted the report of a reapportionment commission and thereby reapportioned Eoss Township from nine to seven wards. The issue for our determination is whether the trial court erred in its earlier order setting aside the township’s first reapportionment plan.

The complex history of the case began when the township adopted, on December 27, 1982, a reapportionment plan which two township commissioners serving as a reapportionment committee had prepared; that…