Skeeter Swanson v. Arkansas Department of Human Services and Minor Children

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• affirming district court’s decision to allow state legislative elections to proceed even though districting plan was “constitutionally infirm in certain respects”
• affirming the district court’s decision allowing state legislative elections to proceed even though districting plan was “constitutionally infirm in certain respects”
• affirming ruling to allow an election, “constitutionally infirm in certain respects,” to proceed
• apportionment plan with aggregate deviation of 26.48% not justified by policy of preserving county lines
• court affirmed district court’s action in permitting election to proceed, “although constitutionally infirm in certain respects”
• “[I]t is quite' clear that unless satisfactorily justified by the court or by the evidence of record, population variances of the size and significance evident here [26.48%] are sufficient to invalidate an apportionment plan.”

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