Supreme Court· 1/27/1975

Chapman v. Meier

Citations

420 U.S. 1
95 S. Ct. 751
42 L. Ed. 2d 766
1975 U.S. LEXIS 25

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holding that a court-ordered reapportionment plan shall not be permitted to deviate as much from strict population equality among districts as a legislatively-created reapportionment
holding that if a state fails to enact \a constitutionally acceptable\ remedial districting plan, \the responsibility falls on the District Court\
holding that if a state fails to enact “a constitutionally acceptable” remedial districting plan, “the responsibility falls on the District Court”
indicating that court-ordered plans should, in some circumstances, defer to, or respect, a state policy of multimember districting
stating that Mann was in regular contact with Judy about the maps and that she knew that Judy communicated her updates to Speaker Batchelder
agreeing that \a map that would have given the Democrats a shot at five districts wasn't under consideration\

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Judges: Blackmun

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