Reynolds v. State Election Board

No. 9130, Moss v. Burkhart, reported 207 F.Supp. 885, and 220 F.Supp. 149, comes on for further consideration pursuant to summary order of the United States Supreme Court affirming this Court’s order of reapportionment on its merits and remanding for further proceedings in conformity with the opinion in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 84 S. Ct. 1362, and related cases. We will briefly review the course of this protracted litigation to again put it in proper perspective.

After Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 82 S.Ct. 691, 7 L.Ed.2d 663, and pursuant to hearings in June, 1962, we refused to…