Lytle v. Commissioners of Election

ORDER

BLATT, District Judge.

On March 4, 1974, the plaintiff filed an action in this court against the named defendants in their representative capacity only, alleging that the Board of Commissioners of Union County, the governing body of that county, was malapportioned in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the “one man— one vote” principle established by the Supreme Court of the United States in Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 82 S.Ct. 691, 7 L.Ed.2d 663 (1962), and its progeny. The complaint attacked the use of “at-large” elections with a residency…