Legal Opinion
Quilter v. Voinovich
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided August 11, 1995No. 5:91 CV 2219Published
1Dissent 1
DISSENTING OPINION
[Filed April 28, 1995]
2Dissent · DowdDowd, District Judge
The reapportionment of the Ohio General Assembly, required and strictly controlled by the Ohio Constitution, is done every ten years and follows the decennial census. Increases, decreases and shifts in population inevitably require that the boundary fines for the 99 seats in the House of Representatives be redrawn and, as a consequence, the boundary fines for the 33 seats in the Senate since each senate district consists of three discrete house districts.
The Apportionment Board (the Board), as established by the Ohio Constitution, consists of the…
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- Gomillion v. LightfootSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Allen v. State Board of ElectionsSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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