Preisler v. Secretary of State of Missouri

JOHN W. OLIVER, District Judge,

joined by WILLIAM R. COLLINSON, District Judge.

I

This case presents for judicial review the third effort made by a Missouri General Assembly since the 1960 decennial census to divide this State into ten congressional districts of as nearly equal population as is practicable, in conformity with the dual mandates of Article 3, Section 45 of the 1945 Missouri Constitution, V.A.M.S. and of Art. I, § 2 of the Constitution of the United States. Application of principles established by Art. I, § 2 of the Constitution, as construed by the Supreme Court of the United…