Legal Opinion
Lavergne v. United States House of Representatives
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 11, 2019No. Civil Action No. 2017-0793Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA EUGENE MARTIN LAVERGNE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 17-793 (CKK-CP-RDM) UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Plaintiffs have a bold theory. For more than two centuries, our nation has been operating under the following upper and lower bounds on the number of seats Congress may constitutionally authorize in the House of Representatives: “The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative.” U.S.…
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