Butterworth v. Dempsey
District Court, D. Connecticut
Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law; Judgment; Memorandum on Form of Judgment; and Memorandum on Motion to Intervene by Towns of Franklin .and Salem Filed March 26, 1964.
1Opinion of the Court
TIMBERS, District Judge:
QUESTION PRESENTED
The question here presented is whether the Connecticut General Assembly as now constituted denies plaintiffs the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. We hold that the districting of the Senate and the apportionment of the House so debase the voting rights of plaintiffs in the choice of the members of both houses as to result in an invidious discrimination against plaintiffs who thereby are denied the equal protection of the laws.
PARTIES TO THE ACTION
Plaintiffs are ten resident…
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