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UNITED STATES v. STATE OF TEXAS

Civ. A. No. 76-H-1681.

422 F.Supp. 917 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF TEXAS et al., Defendants.

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

November 3, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. MacCoon, Atty. in Charge, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., James Gough, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff.

David Kendall, First Asst. Atty. Gen. of Tex., Austin, Tex., for The State of Texas, Mark White and John Hill.

Will Sears, Michael T. Powell, Sears & Burns, Houston, Tex., for Waller County and Le Roy Symm, Tax Assessor-Collector of Waller County, Texas.

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

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NOEL, District Judge.

On October 14, 1976 the United States instituted this suit for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that discriminatory voter registration procedures and standards were applied by the Tax Assessor-Collector of Waller County, Texas to students attending Prairie View A & M College in violation of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Twenty Sixth Amendments to the Constitution, as well as certain provisions of...

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