Simon v. Landry

The case at bar has a long history, but requires no résumé, for that history appears fully in the decisions previously rendered. It suffices to state that this action was instituted as a class action by a citizen and taxpayer of Ward 3 of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. An adjudication is sought to procure reapportionment of the Police Jury, pegged on the proposition that the wide disparity between the population of their ward and that of the other wards dilutes the efficacy of their votes in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution *61of the United…