BUSH v. MARTIN

Civ. A. No. 63-H-266.

251 F.Supp. 484 (1966)

George H. W. BUSH et al., Plaintiffs, v. Crawford MARTIN, Secretary of State of the State of Texas, John Connally, Governor of the State of Texas, Waggoner Carr, Attorney General of the State of Texas, et al., Defendants.

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

January 5, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. B. Cassin, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen., and Hawthorne Phillips, Austin, Tex., Patrick B. Gibbons, Dallas, Tex., Will D. Davis, Austin, Tex., Chas. F. Mitchell, Houston, Tex., for defendants.

Duncan E. Boeckman, Pat S. Holloway, Dallas, Tex., for intervenors.

Neil Caldwell, Angleton, Tex., pro se.

Paul B. Haring, Goliad, Tex., pro se.

Franklin S. Spears, San Antonio, Tex., for Senator Franklin Spears, Senator Don Kennard and Sterling Steves, amici curiae.

Before BROWN, Circuit Judge, and INGRAHAM and NOEL, District Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

The question is whether the Texas 1965 Congressional Redistricting Act, enacted after our conditional decree holding Vernon's Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 197a unconstitutional, is constitutional. We hold that this new Act represents a substantial good faith effort by Texas toward the constitutional goal of population equality and is therefore valid at this time. Consequently, the injunction against its enforcement is denied, but by suitable...

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