Cantwell v. Hudnut

TONE, Circuit Judge.

Indiana’s Uni-Gov statute,1 unifying the local governments of Indianapolis and Marion County, is challenged in this action as denying certain voters the equal protection guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. The specific statutory provisions under attack allow four city-county councilmen elected at large from the entire Uni-Gov area (a) to sit on the councils of special police and fire districts, the territory of which consists of only part of the Uni-Gov area, (b) to vote at Uni-Gov council meetings on the business of those special districts, and (c) to vote on the…