STATE of TEXAS, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 27, 1992.
Final Judgment September 17, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Dan Morales, Atty. Gen., Will Pryor, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Mary F. Keller, Deputy Atty. Gen., Renea Hicks, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. in charge, Javier Guajardo, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. (Richard E. Gray, III, Gray & Becker, David R. Richards, Richards, Wiseman & Durst, of counsel), Austin, Tex., for plaintiffs.
John R. Dunne, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gerald W. Jones, Steven H. Rosenbaum, David B. Marblestone, Attys., Voting Section, Civ. Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants.
John N. McCamish, Jr., J. Patrick Deely, San Antonio, Tex. (Jonathan David Pauerstein, Kevin M. Warburton, McCamish, Martin and Loeffler, P.C., of counsel), for intervenors Louis Terrazas, Tom Craddick, Ernest Angelo, Jr., Robert A. Estrada and Sim D. Stokes, III.
Jose Garza, George Korbel, Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc., Judith Sanders-Castro, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, San Antonio, Tex., James C. Harrington, Texas Civ. Rights Project, Austin, Tex., G. Mario Moreno, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Washington, D.C., for intervenors Negrete, et al.
Before WALD, Circuit Judge, and JOYCE HENS GREEN and SPORKIN, District Judges.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
The State of Texas filed this suit seeking relief under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973c (1988) ("section 5"). It originally asked this Court to preclear four of its newly enacted reapportionment plans. Questions involving pre-clearance for the plans governing elections to the Texas House, the Texas Board of Education and the United States Congress have since been resolved. Only the reapportionment plan for the...
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