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VERA v. BUSH

Civil Action No. H-94-0277.

933 F.Supp. 1341 (1996)

Al VERA, Edward Chen, Pauline Orcutt, Edward Blum, Kenneth Powers and Barbara L. Thomas, Plaintiffs, v. George W. BUSH, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Texas, Bob Bullock, in his official capacity as Lt. Governor and President of the Texas Senate, Dan Morales, in his official capacity as Attorney General for the State of Texas, Pete Laney, in his official capacity as Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Antonio Garza, in his official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of Texas, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division.

August 6, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Loy Hurd, Monroe, LA, Ted Hirtz, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs.

Richard E. Gray, III, Gray & Becker, Austin, TX, Javier Aguilar, Austin, TX, Deborah Anne Verbil, Office of Attorney General, Austin, TX, for Defendants George Bush, Dan Morales, Bob Bullock, Antonio Garza and Pete Laney.

Robert A. Kengle, Steven H. Rosenbaum and Gaye L. Hume, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Nancy Herrera, U.S. Attorney's Office, Houston, Texas, for U.S., Defendant-Intervenor.

Elaine Jones and Penda Hair, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Intervenors William Lawson, et al.

Judith A. Sanders-Castro, Mexican-American Legal Defense & Education Fund, San Antonio, TX, for Defendants-Intervenors LULAC and Robert Reyes, et al.

Luis Wilmot and Alabert H. Kauffman, Mexican-American Legal Defense & Education Fund, San Antonio, TX, for Defendants-Intervenors MALDEF.

J. Gerald Herbert, Alexandria, VA, for Amicus Eddie Bernice Johnson.

Keith P. Ellison, Houston, TX, for Amici Sheila Jackson Lee and Gene Green.

Before JONES, Circuit Judge and HITTNER and HARMON, District Judges.

MEMORANDUM OPINION ON INTERIM REMEDY

Pending before the Court are Plaintiffs' Motion for Remedy filed shortly after the Supreme Court's affirmance of this Court's judgment in Bush v. Vera, ___ U.S. ___, 116 S.Ct. 1941, 135 L.Ed.2d 248 (1996), and the Motion of Defendants Lieutenant Governor Bullock ("Bullock") and Speaker of the Texas House Laney ("Laney") to Stay Imposition of a Court-Ordered Remedy. Governor Bush, together with the Secretary of State...

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