Burton v. Hobbie

HOBBS, District Judge:

Plaintiffs brought this class action on behalf of themselves and all other black citizens of the State of Alabama on November 5, 1981, contending that the legislation directed toward reapportionment of the Alabama Legislature (Act No. 81-1049) violated the rights of black citizens under the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the *236United States and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1973 and 1983. Plaintiffs also, charged that said reapportionment legislation impermissibly created large population variances in both legislative houses which - are inconsistent…