J. Minos Simon v. Warren J. Landry

This case involves reapportionment of the Lafayette Parish Police Jury as required by a decree of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. 1 That court directed the police jury to submit to the court a satisfactory plan for reapportionment in accordance with the “One-Man, One-Vote” principle announced in Avery v. Midland County, Texas, 390 U.S. 474, 88 S.Ct. 1114, 20 L.Ed.2d 45 (1968). A primary plan and an alternative plan were presented. The court rejected the primary plan and approved the alternative plan.

The appellant contends that the court erred in…