Legal Opinion

Dameron v. Tangipahoa Parish Police Jury

District Court, E.D. Louisiana

Decided December 6, 1971No. Civ. A. No. 69-1656Published

1Opinion of the Court

ALVIN B. RUBIN, District Judge:

In this suit for reapportionment of the Tangipahoa Parish School Board, *919the only remaining issue is whether any of the four plans submitted by the Board in successive efforts to maintain its present large number of members, without accepting one-representative districts, satisfies constitutional requirements. For it was long ago virtually conceded, and then decided, that the prior method of electing Board members violated the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment. See Opinion of the court dated May 25, 1970, D.C., 315 F.Supp. 137, and Abate v. Mundt, 1971,…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  2. Avery v. Midland CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Whitcomb v. ChavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  4. Hadley v. Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  5. Kirkpatrick v. PreislerSupreme Court of the United States · 1969

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