Castay v. St. John the Baptist Parish Police Jury

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROBERT F. COLLINS, District Judge.

Complainants filed this action on June 15, 1979, alleging that the rapid population growth of Laplace, the largest municipality in the Parish of St. John the Baptist (hereinafter St. John Parish), State of Louisiana, coupled with the failure of the defendant Police Jury1 to reapportion the Police Jury election districts since 1975,2 resulted in a gross dilution of plaintiffs’ voting rights and violated the principle of one-person, one-vote. Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 579, 84 S.Ct. 1362, 12 L.Ed.2d 506 (1964). At the time the complaint…