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GARZA v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Nos. 90-55944, 90-55945 and 90-56024.

918 F.2d 763 (1990)

Yolanda GARZA; Salvador Ledezma; Raymond Palacios; Monica Tovar, Guadalupe De La Garza, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles County; Deane Dana; Peter F. Schabarum; Kenneth F. Hahn, Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES Of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Lawrence K. Irvin; Sarah Flores, Intervenors-Appellees, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles County; Deane Dana; Peter F. Schabarum; Kenneth F. Hahn, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 2, 1990.

Certiorari Denied January 7, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. McDermott, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellants Los Angeles County.

Thomas K. Bourke, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant Flores.

Mark D. Rosenbaum, Richard P. Fajardo, Antonia Hernandez, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees Garza.

Irving Gornstein and Jessica Dunsay Silver, Steven H. Rosenbaum, Mark L. Gross and Miriam R. Eisenstein, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee U.S.

Theodore Shaw, Los Angeles, Cal., for intervenor-appellee.

Before SCHROEDER, NELSON, and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.

Certiorari Denied January 7, 1991. See 111 S.Ct. 681.

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

INTRODUCTION

Hispanics in Los Angeles County, joined by the United States of America, filed this voting rights action in 1988 seeking a redrawing of the districts for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. They alleged that the existing boundaries, which had been drawn after the 1980 census, were gerrymandered boundaries that diluted Hispanic voting strength. They...

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