GRAVES v. BARNES

Civ. A. Nos. A-71-CA-142 to A-71-CA-145.

343 F.Supp. 704 (1972)

Curtis GRAVES, Individually and on behalf of all other voters and candidates similarly situated v. Ben BARNES et al. Diana REGESTER et al. v. Bob BULLOCK et al. Johnny MARRIOTT et al. v. Preston SMITH et al. Van Henry ARCHER, Jr., v. Preston SMITH et al.

United States District Court, W. D. Texas, Austin Division.

January 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Berg, Stuart M. Nelkin, Houston, Tex., for Curtis Graves and others.

Joe Resweber, Charles J. Wilson, Houston, Tex., for defendants except State officials.

Samuel D. McDaniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Tex., Austin, Tex., for State officials.

Oscar H. Mauzy, Dallas, Tex., Oscar H. Mauzy, David R. Richards, Austin, Tex., for Diana Regester and others.

Walter L. Irvin, Cleophas Steele, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs-intervenors Thelma T. Washington, and others.

Edward Idar, Jr., San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiffs-intervenors Joe J. Bernal, and others.

John L. Roach, Dallas Tex., for plaintiffs-intervenors Samuel G. Kail, and others.

Ronald L. Clower, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs-intervenors Dick Ree, and others.

E. Brice Cunningham, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs-intervenors George L. Allen, and others.

Roy Orr, Chairman, Democratic Committee, Dr. George Willeford, Chairman, Republican Committee, Earl Luna, Dallas, Tex., R. James George, Jr., Austin, Tex., for Bob Bullock, Sec. of State and others.

Robert M. Greenberg, Dallas, Tex., for Johnny Marriott and others.

Thomas C. Crouch, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs-intervenors Tom Crouch and others.

Robert W. Hainsworth, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs-intervenors Robert Hainsworth and others.

Nathan W. Eason, J. Douglas McGuire, San Antonio, Tex., for Van Henry Archer, Jr., and others.

Before GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge, and JUSTICE and WOOD, District Judges.


PER CURIAM:

We are once again in the Texas sector of the political thicket of legislative redistricting and required to contour the condition of the individual trees as well as the physiography of the forest as we explore for "crazy quilts," "groves," contiguity, compactness, specie, motivation in planting, and other possible impedimenta to constitutionality in redistricting. In ten years of wandering about this political thicket, we have not yet found the burning...

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