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LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMER. CITIZENS COUNCIL NO. 4434 v. CLEMENTS

No. 90-8014.

923 F.2d 365 (1991)

LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS COUNCIL NO. 4434, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Jesse Oliver, et al., Intervening Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William P. CLEMENTS, etc., et al., Defendants. Jim MATTOX, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Appellants, v. Judge F. Harold ENTZ, etc., Judge Sharolyn Wood, etc., and George S. Bayoud, Jr., etc., Defendants-Appellants, and Tom Rickhoff, Susan D. Reed, John J. Specia, Jr., Sid L. Harle, Sharon Macrae and Michael P. Pedan, Bexar County, Texas State District Judges, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 29, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Pugh, Robert G. Pugh, Jr., Shreveport, La., Kenneth C. DeJean, Asst. Atty. Gen., La. Dept. of Justice, for amicus Roemer, et al.

Cynthia Rougeou, Legal Div., Office of Sec. of State, Baton Rouge, La., for La. Secretary of State.

Michael Rubin, Rubin, Curry, Colvin & Joseph, Baton Rouge, La., for La. D. Judges Assoc.

Susan E. Russ, David R. Boyd, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., Fournier J. Gale, III, Maynard, Cooper, Frierson & Gale, P.C., N. Birmingham, Ala., for amicus State of Ala.

Barbara R. Arnwine, Frank R. Parker, Robert B. McDuff, Washington, D.C., Ernest L. Johnson, T. Richardson Bobb, Baton Rouge, La., Ulysses G. Thibodeaux, Lake Charles, La., for Janice Clark, et al.

Robert H. Mow, Jr., Bobby M. Ruberts, David C. Godbey, Jr., Hughes & Luce, Sidney Powell, Strasburger & Price, Dallas, Tex., for Entz.

J. Eugene Clements, Evelyn V. Keyes, Porter & Clements, Houston, Tex., for Wood.

Seagal V. Wheatley, Donald R. Philbin, Jr., Gerald H. Goldstein, Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley, Joel H. Pullen, Kaufman, Becker, Pullen & Reibach, San Antonio, Tex., for Rickhoff, et al.

R. James George, Jr., John M. Harmon, Margaret H. Taylor, Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, Austin, Tex., for Chapman, Stovall, Schraub, Cornyn, Hester, Paxson, Kirk & Walker.

Michael E. Tigar, Austin, Tex., for Bexar County, etc., et al.

Michael Ramsey, Ramsey & Tyson, Houston, Tex., for amicus 27 Incumbent Judges of Harris County on behalf of appellant Wood.

Daniel M. Ogden, Paul Strohl, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae, Washington Legal Foundation, In Support of defendant-intervenor Dallas County Judge F. Harold Entz.

Thomas F. Rugg, Chief, County Dist. Attys. Office, Beaumont, Tex., for amicus curiae, Jefferson County Dist. Judges (Except Floyd, etc.).

Ken Oden, Travis County Atty., David R. Richards, Sp. Counsel, Austin, Tex., Mark H. Dettman, Midland, Tex., for District Judges of Travis County.

Rolando L. Rios, William L. Garrett, Garrett, Thompson & Chang, Dallas, Tex., Susan Finkelstein, San Antonio, Tex., for League of United Latin Am. Citizens and Christina Moreno.

Walter L. Irvin, Dallas, Tex., for amicus Brashear, et al. on Behalf of appellees.

Gabriell K. McDonald, Matthews & Branscomb, Austin, Tex., for Legislative Black Caucus and Houston Lawyers Ass'n.

Renea Hicks, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Javier Guajardo, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for Mattox, et al., & Bayoud (in His Official Capacity only).

Sherrilyn A. Ifill, NAACP Legal Defense and Ed. Fund, Inc., New York City, for Houston Lawyers Ass'n.

Edward B. Cloutman, III, Cloutman, Albright & Bower, E. Brice Cunningham, Dallas, Tex., for Jessee Oliver, et al.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, GEE, POLITZ, KING, JOHNSON, JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, JONES, SMITH, DUHE, WIENER, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

We are asked by hindsight to treat as a plaintiff state District Judge Sharolyn Wood, who originally intervened on the side of the named state defendant in a challenge to Texas's method of electing such judges as she and, with the underlying case decided in Texas's favor, to assess her attorney fees against Texas. We conclude that Judge Wood participated in the litigation as a defendant in all respects and cannot recover her expenses from another...

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