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CITY OF PORT ARTHUR, TEX. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 80-0648.

517 F.Supp. 987 (1981)

CITY OF PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 12, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Q. Keith, Mehaffy, Weber, Keith & Gonsoulin, Beaumont, Tex., for plaintiff, with whom were George Wikoff, City Atty., Port Arthur, Tex., and James D. Welch and Greer S. Goldman, Wald, Harkrader & Ross, Washington, D.C.

J. Gerald Hebert and Robert S. Berman, Attys., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant United States of America, with whom were Drew S. Days, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Gerald W. Jones and Paul F. Hancock, Attys., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth K. Julian and Michael M. Daniel, East Texas Legal Services, Dallas, Tex., for intervenor-defendants Abraham Douglas, et al., with whom was Norman J. Chachkin, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C.

Before J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge, and JOHN LEWIS SMITH, Jr., and CHARLES R. RICHEY, District Judges.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

CHARLES R. RICHEY, District Judge.

This is an action for declaratory relief brought under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973c (Supp. 1974-1980).1 Unless a state or political subdivision receives the approval of the Attorney General of the United States for a change in its voting standards, practices or procedures, section 5 requires...

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