Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Lockert v. Crowell
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided March 31, 1982PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DROWOTA, Justice.
This case comes to us on direct appeal1 from the Chancellor’s grant of plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment. The primary question presented is the constitutionality of the Senate Reapportionment Act of *7041981,2 which Act reapportioned the State Senate in response to the 1980 federal decennial census, as required by Art. II, § 4 of the Tennessee Constitution. The defendants cite as error the Chancellor’s holding that the Act “contravenes Article II, § 6 of the Tennessee Constitution providing that no county shall be divided in forming a senate district, and the…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- City of Mobile v. BoldenSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- White v. RegesterSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Whitcomb v. ChavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Stephenson v. BartlettSupreme Court of North Carolina · 2002
- LeRoux v. Secretary of StateMichigan Supreme Court · 2002
- Kallenberger v. BuchananSupreme Court of Colorado · 1982
- Fischer v. State Board of ElectionsKentucky Supreme Court · 1994
- State Ex Rel. Lockert v. CrowellTennessee Supreme Court · 1983
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