United States Sixth Circuit

Where a challenged voting apportionment scheme demonstrated a population deviation as high as 66.85%, the scheme exceeded Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection limits, irrespective of the underlying policy reasons for that deviation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2002
• Published 01/24/2002

Judges

• Before:  BATCHELDER, COLE, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rodney A. Fleming (argued and briefed), Student Legal Services, Inc., Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Steven L. Spitler (argued and briefed), Mimi S. Yoon, Spitler, Vogtsberger & Huffman, Bowling Green, Ohio, for Defendants-Appellants.