Lustgarten v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• discussing competing theories and criticizing Judge Kozinski's promotion of one theory — electoral equality— over the other
• explaining that elected representatives “should represent roughly the same number of constituents, so that each person, whether or not they are entitled to vote, receives a fair share of the governmental power, through his or her representative”
• state not required to use voting age population, as opposed to total population, as apportionment base
• whether to favor representational or electoral equality in redistricting should be left to the state
• “This is quintessentially a decision that should be made by the state, not the federal courts, in the inherently political and legislative process of apportionment”
• “This is quintessentially a decision that should be made by the state, not the federal courts, in the inherently political and legislative process of apportionment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).