Yancey v. Faubus

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Yancey v. Faubus
the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

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In 1956 Arkansas voters passed Amendment 45 to their state constitution. This amendment froze the boundaries of the state senate districts and the number of senators elected from each district. The constitutionality of this amendment was challenged in federal court by plaintiff Yancey under a line of U.S. Supreme Court cases about reapportionment.

Yancey v. Faubus, 238 F. Supp. 290 (E.D. Ark. 1965), was heard by a three-judge panel of Pat Mehaffy, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Jesse Smith Henley, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Gordon Elmo Young, Judge of the same court. Chief Judge Henley wrote the panel's opinion.

2700515Yancey v. Faubus1965the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

238 F. Supp. 290

John YANCEY v. Orval E. FAUBUS, Governor, et al.

No. LR-64-C-96.---Delivered: Jan. 28, 1965

Court Documents
Opinion of the Court

Thorp Thomas, Little Rock, Ark., for plaintiff.

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen., and Jack L. Lessenberry, Chief Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.

[p291] Before MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge, HENLEY, Chief District Judge, and YOUNG, District Judge.

[Opinion of the court by Chief Judge HENLEY.]

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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