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WILLIAMS v. CITY OF DALLAS

No. CA 3-88-1152-R.

734 F.Supp. 1317 (1990)

Roy WILLIAMS and Marvin Crenshaw, Plaintiffs, and The Ledbetter Neighborhood Association, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. The CITY OF DALLAS, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Dallas Division.

March 28, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Williams, Thelma E. Sanders, Jonathan W. Vickery and Elizabeth K. Julian, Legal Services of North Texas, and Michael M. Daniel, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Analeslie Muncy, Paul Pearce, Jr., Kenneth C. Dippel, Carroll Graham, John Schumann, Sam A. Lindsay and Kathryn Bendor-Samuel, City Attys., Dallas, Tex., Francis X. Wright, Roger D. Redden, Kurt J. Fischer, Piper & Marbury, Baltimore, Md., and Gerrit M. Pronske, Hale, Spencer, Stanley, Pronske & Trust, Dallas, Tex., for defendant.

Rolando L. Rios, San Antonio, Tex., and William L. Garrett, Garrett, Thompson & Chang, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff-intervenor.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BUCHMEYER, District Judge.

This is a voting rights case.

It concerns the "8-3 system" for the election of members of the Dallas City Council—i.e., 8 single-member districts and 3 "at-large" places. Under this system, no African-American has ever been elected to one of the at-large seats; only one Mexican-American has been elected at-large under the 8-3 system but, as discussed below, this was due to some very unusual circumstances...

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