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<br />remaining report was distributed to the members of the Senate <br />Redistricting Committee on May 3, 1991. <br />COlfCLUSIOlfS 01' LAW <br />1. Minnesota Laws 1991, Chapter 246, violates Article IV, <br />sections 2 and 3 of the Minnesota Constitution because, among other <br />defects, it creates noncontiguous districts. <br />2. Minnesota Laws 1991, Chapter 246, violates the equality <br />of representation requirement of the fourteenth amendment of the <br />United states Constitution. <br />3. Unless a legislative plan is incorrectably invalid, a <br />court may not simply .ubstitute its own reapportionment preferences <br />for those of the state legislature. bA UDham v. Seamon, 456 U.S. <br />37, 40-42, 102 S.. ct. 1518, 1520-21 (1982). Courts are not <br />permitted to disregard state apportionment policy or plans without <br />solid constitutional grounds for doing so. White v. Weiser, 412 <br />U.S. 783, 795, 93 S. ct. 2348, 2355 (1973) (citing Whitcomb v. <br />Chavis, 403 U.S. 124, 160, 91 S. ct. 1858, 1878 (1971)). The court <br />must reconcile constitutional requirements with the goals of state <br />political policy by limiting its modifications "to those necessary <br />to cure any constitutional or statutory defect." Upham 456 at 43, <br />102 S. ct. at 1522; ~Ala2 Rybicki v. State &d. of Elections, 574 <br />F. Supp. 1082 (N.D. Ill. 1982) (making only those corrections <br />necessary to remove unconstitutional defects). Such deference does <br />not extend to the curative amendments, as they have not been <br />adopted into law. <br /> <br />-11- <br />