Watts v. Carter

PALMORE, Judge.

This is a declaratory judgment action testing the validity of the 1962 Congressional redistricting act of the General Assembly, House Bill 443. The circuit court held it valid.

The population represented by the seven districts created by the act varies from 350,-839 in the First (including 20 counties) to 610,947 in the Third (consisting of Jefferson County alone). The configuration of one of the districts, the Fourth, is described in appellant’s brief as “a geographic monstrosity resembling a goose with its head in the urban counties of Grant [Boone ?], Campbell and Kenton and…