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SIERRA v. EL PASO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST.

No. EP-83-CA-203.

591 F.Supp. 802 (1984)

Leopoldo SIERRA, Antonio Moreno, Cesar Caballero, Fermin Dorado, Patricia Roybal Sutton and Paul Moreno, Plaintiffs, v. The EL PASO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT and Ronald K. McLeod, Individually and in His Official Capacity as General Superintendent of the El Paso Independent School District and Harold Wiggs, Paul H. Carlton, Mrs. Frankie R. Tanzy, Mrs. William D. Tippin, Mrs. Richard Thurman, Arturo Aguirre and Judith Ridley, Individually and in Their Official Capacities as Members of the Board of Trustees of the El Paso Independent School District, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Texas, El Paso Division.

April 3, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raul Noriega, Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc., San Antonio, Tex., J.B. Ochoa, Cathy Barnes, El Paso Legal Assistance, El Paso, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Sam Sparks, Grambling & Mounce, H. Keith Myers, El Paso, Tex., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HUDSPETH, District Judge.

This is an action for declaratory and injunctive relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1973. The Plaintiffs represent a class of all Mexican-American voters within the El Paso Independent School District. Their suit contends that the present system for electing members of the Board of Trustees for the El Paso Independent School District...

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