SANCHEZ v. BOND

No. 87-2860.

875 F.2d 1488 (1989)

Jennie SANCHEZ, Stella Sanchez, Adeline Sanchez, Dora Trujillo, and Charles Jaramillo, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William BOND, County Clerk and Recorder of Saguache County, Colorado, Cecil Hall, Keith Edwards, Chuck Grant, Board of County Commissioners for Saguache County, John Price, County Chairman of the Democratic Party for Saguache County and Robert Felmlee, County Chairman of the Republican Party for Saguache County, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

May 30, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose Garza, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, and Antonia Hernandez, Norma V. Cantu, Judith A. Sanders-Castro, and Albert H. Kauffman of MALDEF, San Antonio, Tex., with him on the brief, for plaintiffs-appellants.

S. Morris Lubow, Denver, Colo., and Robert S. Crites, of Crites and Farish, Monte Vista, Colo., with him on the brief, for defendants-appellees.

Before MOORE and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, District Judge.


WESLEY E. BROWN, Senior District Judge.

This is an appeal of a vote dilution case. Plaintiffs-Appellants are voters from Saguache County, Colorado, who contend that the at-large election procedure used to elect county commissioners in Saguache County impermissibly dilutes Hispanic votes in violation of Section 2 et seq. of the Voting Rights Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 et seq. After hearing the evidence, the district...

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