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Legal Citation: 410 U.S. 315 (1973)

Appellants
Mahan, Secretary, Virginia State Board of Elections, and others

Appellees
Henry E. Howell, Jr., Clive L. DuVal II, City of Norfolk, and others

Appellants' Claim
The district court had invalidated the Virginia General Assembly's plan for redistricting in state elections and had substituted an unfair plan of its own.

Chief Lawyer for Appellees
Andrew P. Miller, Attorney General of Virginia

Chief Lawyers for Appellants
Henry E. Howell, Jr., and Clive L. DuVal II, arguing for themselves

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, Warren E. Burger, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist (writing for the Court), Potter Stewart, Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
William J. Brennan, Jr., William O. Douglas, Thurgood Marshall

Place
Washington,...