Legal Opinion
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO v. Elections Board
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided June 9, 1982No. Civ. A. No. 82-C-0113PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION and ORDER
In 1972 the Wisconsin Legislature enacted legislation to reapportion the state’s 33 Senate districts and 99 Assembly districts on the basis of the 1970 census. See Wis. Stat. § 4.001(1). The 1972 legislative elections and subsequent legislative elections have been conducted under the district boundaries established by the Wisconsin Legislature in 1972.
In 1980, the Bureau of the Census, United States Department of Commerce, conducted a decennial census of Wisconsin, as well as all other states. The 1980 census figures, as recertified by the Census Bureau on May 19, 1982, set…
2Cases cited47 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Gaffney v. CummingsSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Mahan v. HowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Chapman v. MeierSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Jensen v. Wisconsin Elections BoardWisconsin Supreme Court · 2002
- Baldus v. Members of the Wisconsin Government Accountability BoardDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 2012
- WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO v. Elections Bd.District Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1982
- People Ex Rel. Burris v. RyanIllinois Supreme Court · 1992