GARCIA v. UVALDE CTY.

Civ.A.No. DR-76-CA-24.

455 F.Supp. 101 (1978)

Richard GARCIA et al., Plaintiffs, and United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. UVALDE COUNTY et al., Defendants, and Norment Foley and Gene Ilse, Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, W. D. Texas, Del Rio Division.

Reconsideration Denied June 17, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul D. Rich, Crystal City, Tex., George J. Korbel, San Antonio, Tex., Vilma Martinez, Morris J. Baller and Linda Hanten, Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, San Francisco, Cal., Joaquin G. Avila, Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund, San Antonio, Tex., Pablo Avila, Crystal City, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Harvey B. Knudsen, Jr., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-intervenor, United States of America.

R. Emmet Harris, Uvalde, Tex., and Grant Cook, Houston, Tex., for defendants.

Lloyd Lochridge and Joe M. Kilgore, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Austin, Tex., for defendants-intervenors, Norment Foley and Gene Ilse.

Before GEE, Circuit Judge, and SPEARS and WOOD, District Judges.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JOHN H. WOOD, Jr., District Judge.

This is a Voting Rights Act case involving the 1973 reapportionment of Uvalde County, Texas' Commissioners Court Precincts. Private Plaintiffs brought this action on or about October 18, 1976 seeking a declaration that the Defendant County Officials had failed to secure the approval of the Attorney General or the District Court for the District of...

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