Reverend Herman L. Driskell v. Honorable Edwin W. Edwards, Governor, State of Louisiana, Etc.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

This much-traveled case comes to us as an appeal from the determination by a single district judge that the constitutional attack before him did not need to be heard by a three-Judge Court because the question presented was insubstantial and the case inappropriate for injunctive relief. We reverse.

Act 2 of the 1972 Louisiana Legislature called a convention to convene January 5, 1973 and frame a new state constitution. One delegate was to be elected from each legislative district and a number of others were to be appointed by the Governor — some to represent special…