Chapman v. Meier

How courts have described this case

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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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