Louis TERRAZAS, W.E. Tucker, Linda Allison Frederick, Verne D.J. Phillips and Ed Emmett, Plaintiffs,
Jesus Rodriguez, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors,
R.A. Deison, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors,
v.
William P. CLEMENTS, Individually and in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Texas; et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Dallas Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 4, 1984.
January 4, 1984.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Thomas G. Crouch, Crouch & Jones, Patricia A. Hill, Dallas, Tex., for senate plaintiffs (CA 3-81-1946-R).
John N. McCamish, Jr., Pat Deely, McCamish, Ingram, Martin & Brown, Inc., San Antonio, Tex., for house plaintiffs (CA 3-81-2205-R).
Randall B. Strong, Daniel R. Jackson, Baytown, Tex., for Baytown plaintiffs (CA 3-81-2263-R).
Joaquin G. Avila, Jose Garza, Norma V. Solis, Judith A. Sanders, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, San Antonio, Tex., Albert H. Kauffman, Dallas, Tex., Vilma S. Martinez, Morris J. Baller, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, San Francisco, Cal., for MALDEF intervenors.
J. Richie Field, Crews, Field, Steele & Page, Conroe, Tex., for Montgomery County intervenors.
David R. Richards, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Tex., Steve Bickerstaff, C. Robert Heath, Martha E. Smiley, Bickerstaff, Heath & Smiley, Richard E. Gray, III, Gray, Allison & Becker, Austin, Tex., for defendants Mark White, William P. Clements, William P. Hobby, Bill Clayton, Bob Bullock and Bob Armstrong.
John Harmon, R. James George, Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, Austin, Tex., for defendant Chester R. Upham.
Bob Slagle, III, pro se.
Cullen Smith, Larry O. Brady, Naman, Howell, Smith & Lee, David Guinn, Michael Morrison, Baylor Law School, Waco, Tex., for defendant David Dean.
William French Smith, U.S. Atty. Gen., Paul Hancock, Robert S. Berman, David S. Cunningham, III, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae Dept. of Justice.
Before RANDALL, Circuit Judge, and SANDERS and BUCHMEYER, District Judges.
United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Dallas Division.
RANDALL, Circuit Judge:
In this opinion, we decide whether the State of Texas has violated section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973 (West Supp.1983), or the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution in drawing the districts to elect members of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas County. Specifically, we consider the contention of a group of hispanic voters (the "MALDEF Intervenors")1 that splitting...
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