Legal Opinion
O'SULLIVAN v. Brier
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided June 3, 1982No. 82-1335, 82-4096PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOGAN, Circuit Judge.
These cases, before a three-judge panel convened pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2284(a), challenge the constitutionality of the existing congressional districts in Kansas and ask this Court to adopt a new congressional redistricting plan.
After the Census Bureau released the 1980 census figures, the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives informed Kansas Governor John Carlin that the number of congressional seats for the State of Kansas would remain at five. Thereafter, the Kansas legislature attempted to enact a new redistricting law to comport with those census…
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3Cited by22 opinions
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