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VOTING RIGHTS COALITION v. WILSON

No. 95-15449.

60 F.3d 1411 (1995)

VOTING RIGHTS COALITION; Coalition for an African-American Community Agenda; League of Women Voters of California; California Common Cause; '94 Committee; Stella Dominquez; Cynthia Moreno; and Veronica Moreno, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Pete WILSON, Governor of the State of California; Tony Miller, Acting Secretary of State, California; Frank Zolin, Director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles; Eloise Anderson, Director of the California Department of Social Services; Brenda Premo, Director of the California Department of Rehabilitation, Defendants-Appellants, v. Janet RENO, Attorney General; United States of America, Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 24, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cyrus J. Rickards, Deputy Atty. Gen., Sacramento, CA, for defendants-appellants.

Samuel R. Bagenstos, Steven H. Rosenbaum, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, Mei Lin Kwan-Gett, Mark D. Rosenbaum, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Robert Rubin, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Miriam E. Brewster, Deputy Atty., County of San Diego, San Diego, CA, Anton Leof, Latham & Watkins, San Francisco, CA, Michael J. Guzman, Latham & Watkins, Washington, DC, Daniel J. Popeo, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, DC, Joseph Remcho, Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, San Francisco, CA, Donald W. Brown, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, CA, Douglas I. Horngrad, San Francisco, CA, for amici.

W. Mark Dunn, Asst. Atty. Gen., Com. of Virginia, Richmond, VA, for Com. of Virginia.

Before: GOODWIN, SNEED, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

SNEED, Circuit Judge:

Governor Wilson, in his official capacity, directed the appropriate officials of the State of California not to comply with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1973gg-1 to -10 ("the Act"), on constitutional grounds. The Voting Rights Coalition, joined by the Attorney General of the United States, having come together as a result of a suit by the State of California against the United States to enjoin permanently...

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