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RANGEL v. MORALES

Nos. 89-2868, 89-6226.

8 F.3d 242 (1993)

Rita RANGEL, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Dan MORALES, The Attorney General and The Secretary of State of the State of Texas, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 18, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Renea Hicks, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Will Pryor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Mary F. Keller, Javier Guajardo, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for defendants-appellants.

David Richards, Gray & Becker, Austin, TX, David G. Hall, Texas Rural Legal Aid, Weslaco, TX, for plaintiffs-appellees.

William H. Berry, Jr., Corpus Christi, TX, for intervenor-other interested person-Justice Bonner.

Before KING and JOLLY, Circuit Judges, and PARKER, District Judge.

KING, Circuit Judge:

This section 2 voting rights appeal raises one issue: Did the district court clearly err in finding legally significant white bloc voting in elections involving the Thirteenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas? For the reasons discussed below, we conclude that the district court did commit clear error in finding — essentially on the basis of one election — that whites vote sufficiently as a bloc so as to usually defeat the...

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