Legislative reapportionment case files. 1970-1992.

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Legislative reapportionment case files. 1970-1992.

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Legal case files of a St. Paul attorney pertaining to three lawsuits in which he represented the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in cases involving the reapportionment of Minnesota state legislative districts and Minnesota Congressional districts: Beens v. Erdahl, 1971; LaComb v. Growe, 1981; and Cotlow v. Growe, 1991.

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Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

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Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) was officially formed on April 15, 1944, the result of a merger of the existing Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor Party. Although the two entities had competed vigorously throughout their pasts, they had been brought into closer harmony through their mutual support of New Deal programs, through Popular Front collaborations during World War II, and through a realistic acceptance of the fact that they were effectively splitting the s...

Weinblatt, Alan W.

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Alan W. Weinblatt attended the University of Minnesota, earning a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a law degree in 1968. He was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1968, and to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1972. He was a member of the St. Paul law firm of Weinblatt and Gaylord, where his primary areas of practice were new business start-up (entrepreneurship), real estate development, and campaign finance and election law. He represented the Democratic Farmer Labor Party and its c...