BRISCOE v. LEVI

No. 75-1903.

535 F.2d 1259 (1976)

Dolph BRISCOE, Governor of the State of Texas, et al., Appellants, v. Edward H. LEVI, United States Attorney General, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 19, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cynthia L. Attwood, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., and Brian K. Landsberg, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellees. John A. Terry, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellees.

David M. Kendall, First Asst. Atty. Gen. of the State of Texas, Dallas, Tex., with whom John W. Odam, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen. of the State of Texas, Austin, Tex., was on the brief for appellants. Charles S. Rhyne, William S. Rhyne, Donald A. Carr and Richard J. Bacigalupo, Washington, D. C., entered appearances for appellants.

Before Mr. Justice CLARK, of the Supreme Court of the United States, and ROBINSON and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge MacKINNON.

MacKINNON, Circuit Judge:

The State of Texas in this litigation contends that the Attorney General and the Director of the Census incorrectly determined that Texas became subject to the corrective provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,1 by virtue of the 1975 amendments2 thereto, because more than five percent of the voting age citizens of...

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