Legal Opinion
Harold A. Dundee v. Orleans Parish Board of Supervisors of Elections
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 29, 1971No. 29739PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Per curiam
Harold Dundee instituted this suit against the Orleans Parish Board of Supervisors of Elections and others, claiming that the members of the Board of Assessors of Orleans Parish were elected from mal-apportioned districts and that the mal-apportionment constituted invidious discrimination denying him and others of equal protection of the laws. In essence he claimed that the seven member board ought to be apportioned within the parish so that equal numbers of voters could vote for proportionally equal numbers of officials. It was stipulated that the population of the various Municipal…
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