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SALAS v. SOUTHWEST TEXAS JR. COLLEGE DIST.

No. 91-8175.

964 F.2d 1542 (1992)

Jesus SALAS, Agustin Negrete and Benjamin Menchaca, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SOUTHWEST TEXAS JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied August 11, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Korbel, Jose Garza, Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc., San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Claude Robert Heath, Ann C. Snell, Bickerstaff, Heath & Smiley, Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before GOLDBERG, DUHÉ and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 11, 1992.

BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

At issue in this Voting Rights Act § 2 case is whether the plaintiff Hispanic voters, who constitute a registered voter majority in the challenged at-large district, have met their burden of establishing that use of the at-large system, as opposed to single member districts, results in their "hav[ing] less opportunity than other members of the [district's] electorate to...

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