Legal Opinion
In Re Apportionment of State Legislature
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided November 21, 1966No. Calendar 19, Docket 50,999PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*408Memorandum oe
Justice Black
(for issuance of immediate mandatory writ; submitted to other members of the Court January 17, 1966).
“"We have a great problem here maintaining onr credibility with onr own people.”1
As this constitutionally ordained original proceeding draws to an ignominious close, the Supreme Court , of Michigan also has a great problem maintaining its credibility with its own people. We have issued a mandatory order to the commission on legislative apportionment, the purposeful integrity of which five of us have attested “pursuant to the specific mandate which appears in paragraph…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Katzenbach v. McClungSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Fong Foo v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of ColoradoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by22 opinions
- In Re Apportionment of State Legislature—1982Michigan Supreme Court · 1982
- Sincock v. GatelyDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1967
- Cummings v. MeskillDistrict Court, D. Connecticut · 1972
- In Re Apportionment of State LegislatureMichigan Supreme Court · 1972
- In Re Apportionment, State Legislature-1992Michigan Supreme Court · 1992
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