Groh v. Egan

OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Justice.

For the third time, we are confronted with a challenge to the reapportionment of the Alaska legislature.1 In Egan v. Hammond, we held that the 1971 reapportionment of the Alaska legislature, which was promulgated pursuant to the mandate of Art. VI of the Alaska Constitution, was unconstitutional under the equal protection and supremacy clauses of the United States Constitution. Due to the imminence of the 1972 elections we adopted an interim plan of reapportionment for the 1972 legislative elections. The case was thereafter remanded to the superior court which on…