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LA RAZA UNIDA v. STATE OF NEW MEXICO

No. 76-2057.

577 F.2d 677 (1978)

LA RAZA UNIDA, a political party, Antonio Devargas, Barbara Manzanares and Moise Morales, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF NEW MEXICO, Ernestine Evans, New Mexico Secretary of State and Joe Branch, Rio Arriba County Clerk, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris J. Baller, San Francisco, Cal. (and Vilma S. Martinez and Joaquin G. Avila, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, San Francisco, Cal., and Richard Rosenstock, Chama, N.M., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jill Z. Cooper, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, N.M. (Toney Anaya, Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, N.M., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before McWILLIAMS, BARRETT and LOGAN, Circuit Judges.

McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

La Raza Unida, a minor political party in the State of New Mexico, and three individual party members brought suit against the State of New Mexico, its Secretary of State, and the County Clerk for Rio Arriba County, seeking to enjoin the enforcement of certain New Mexico statutes relating to the appointment of local election officials to serve on precinct election boards.

The claim was that...

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