RIDGE v. VERITY

Civ. A. No. 88-351.

715 F.Supp. 1308 (1989)

Thomas J. RIDGE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. William C. VERITY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

May 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Byer, Scott D. Cessar, Robert A. Socci, Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Leroy S. Zimmerman, Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., for Comm. of Pa.

Robert T. Stephen, Atty. Gen., Topeka, Kan., for State of Kan.

Cordia A. Strom, Immigration Reform Law Institute, Washington, D.C., for I.R.L. I.

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., Robert M. Weinberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for State of Ala.

Jim Mattox, Renea Hicks, Austin, Tex., for State of Tex. (amicus curiae).

Judson H. Miner, Chicago, Ill., Corp. Counsel for City of Chicago (amicus curiae).

Bridget Arimond, Sp. Deputy Corp. Counsel, Thomas P. Hecht, Hopkins & Sutter, Chicago, Ill., for City of Chicago (amicus curiae).

Peter L. Zimroth, Corp Counsel, New York City, for City of New York (amicus curiae).

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., New York City, Barbara M. Wolvovitz, Pittsburgh, Pa., for State of N.Y. (amicus curiae).

Lucas Guttentab, Greg Keller, American Civil Liberties Union, Immigration Task Force, New York City, for American Civil Liberties Union, Immigration Task Force (amicus curiae).

Robert Deasy, Nat. Immigration Project of the Nat. Lawyers Guild, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Nat. Immigration Project of Nat. Lawyers Guild (amicus curiae).

Richard P. Fajardo, Richard Castillo, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Chicago, Ill., Robert Whitehill, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Marquez-intervenors (amicus curiae).

Sandra M. Schraibman, Asst. Director, Federal Programs Branch Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, C. Max Vassanelli, Sr. Trial Counsel, Thomas Peebles, Susan Korytkowski, Trial Attys., Washington, D.C., for U.S. Justice Dept.

Craig McKay, Asst. U.S. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., for Verity, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census & U.S.

Steven R. Ross, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives, David W. DeBruin, John T. Nakahata, John & Block, Washington, D.C., for House of Representatives.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

STANDISH, District Judge.

I

This is a civil action in which plaintiffs, the states of Alabama, Kansas and Pennsylvania, various members of the House of Representatives, the Coalition for Constitutional Reapportionment (CCR), and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), have filed a complaint challenging the inclusion of illegal aliens1 in the 1990 census population figures for purposes...

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