McCARTY v. HENSON

No. 84-2006.

749 F.2d 1134 (1984)

Jack McCARTY, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ben HENSON, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 12, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cornett, Echols & Biard, Leighton Cornett, Paris, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Henslee & Ryan, Donald G. Henslee, David P. Ryan, Austin, Tex., Mike Rowan, Tyler, Tex., for Henson, et al. & N. Lamar ISD.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, GOLDBERG and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

Black voters contend that their vote has been diluted, in violation of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, by the election of school board trustees at large and seek an order that the seven members of the North Lamar Independent School District in Lamar County, Texas, be elected from single-member districts. The district court found that the at-large system had not been created or maintained with discriminatory intent and that the...

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