[EM] RE : Any other way to access Ernst's paper?

[Kevin Venzke]

Hi,

--- MIKE OSSIPOFF <nkklrp at hotmail.com> a écrit :
>    I haven't succeeded in downloading Ernst's  paper with its
> justification 
> of Huntington-Hill. Is there any other way to gain find it on the
> Internet?
> 
>   Joe, could you briefly summarize the argument for Hill vs Webster?
> 
> Could it be that Ernst was only comparing Hill to the methods that were 
> being advocated in that court case, without showing that Hill was as good
> as 
> Webster?

When I read this paper I got the impression that Massachusetts (who
sued advocating Webster) failed to convince the district court that Hill
was biased, and failed to argue why what Webster optimizes is more
fair or more in line with the Constitution than what Hill optimizes.
(It seems that the real life evidence Massachusetts used to argue that
Hill is biased could be undermined by making different assumptions.)

I don't get the impression from this paper that Ernst, the Supreme Court,
or the district court in the Massachusetts case considered "equal
proportions" to be "better" than "major fractions" (or vice versa). The
courts only seem to hold that "EP" is acceptable according to the wording
of the Constitution, and that Congress is within its rights to adopt it.

Kevin Venzke


	

	
		
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