State ex rel. King v. Rhodes

This case presents hut a single question. Did the Ohio Apportionment Board have the power to adopt the plan which the federal courts have found to conform to federal constitutional standards ?

The resolution of this question requires the determination of two issues: First, the effect of the federal court’s decisions on Article XI of the Ohio Constitution providing for legislative apportionment; second, whether the Ohio Apportionment Board had the power to act during the interim between decennial censuses.

It should be pointed out at the outset that state legislative apportionment is basically a…