Jordan v. Winter

Plaintiffs bring class actions on behalf of Mississippi residents and registered voters and the state’s black residents and voters to (1) enjoin enforcement of the state’s 1981 congressional redistricting plan until it is precleared under § 5 of the Voting Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 1973c); (2) prohibit further use of Miss.Code Ann. § 23-5-223 (1972), the state’s existing congressional plan, because of population malapportionment allegedly violative of Art. 1, § 2 and the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution; and (3) secure a court-ordered plan for the 1982 elections for…