TREVINO v. PASTRICK

No. H 83-230.

573 F.Supp. 806 (1983)

Praxedis TREVINO, Mark Arredondo, Adelino Torres, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated; and Joe Ochoa, Olga Cornejo, Individually and in their capacity as precinct committeemen or vice-committeemen, Plaintiffs, v. Robert PASTRICK, a Chairman of the Lake County Democratic Central Committee; Rudy Bartolomei, Frank Stodola, and N. Atterson Spahn, as Lake County Board of Commissioners; Don Cox, John Livingood, and Susan Davis, as the Indiana State Election Board; and Michael Pannos, Joseph Kotso, Kenneth Petterson, and John Holland, as the Lake County Election Board; and Edward Lukawski, in his capacity as Secretary to the Lake County Election Board, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Indiana, Hammond Division.

May 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond G. Romero, Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Chicago, Ill., Paul Giorgi, Merrillville, Ind., for plaintiffs.

Anthony DeBonis, Jr., Murphy, McAtee, Murphy & Costanza, East Chicago, Ind., Gonzalo P. Curiel, James & James, Dyer, Ind., for defendant Pastrick.

Edward H. Feldman, Asst. Lake County Atty., Crown Point, Ind., for defendants Bartolomei, Stodola, Spahn, Pannos, Kotso, Petterson, Holland, and Lukawski.

Linley E. Pearson, Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., for defendants Cox, Livingood, and Davis.


ORDER DENYING MOTION TO RECONSIDER

KANNE, District Judge.

At the conclusion of the hearing on the motion for preliminary injunction, the court indicated that there was a lack of evidence to support plaintiffs' allegations under the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 et seq.; the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985; and the one person/one vote provision of the Fourteenth Amendment.1

The court further...

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