STATE OF ARIZ. v. RENO

Civ. A. No. 94-2054 (DST, U.S.C.A.; NHJ; RMU).

887 F.Supp. 318 (1995)

STATE OF ARIZONA, Plaintiff, v. Janet RENO, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 16, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rex E. Lee, Carter G. Phillips, Jonathan E. Nuechterlein, Ann K. Adams, Sidley & Austin, Washington, DC, and Grant Woods, Atty. Gen. and H. Leslie Hall, Chief Counsel Civ. Div., Phoenix, AZ, for plaintiff.

Donna M. Murphy, Luis A. Torres, Elizabeth Johnson, Rebecca J. Wertz, and Sarabeth Donovan, Civil Rights Div., Voting Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendants.

Before: TATEL, Circuit Judge, and JOHNSON and URBINA, District Judges.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

On April 8 and May 16, 1994, respectively, the Attorney General denied preclearance for the addition of four judgeships to the Arizona Superior Court in Coconino and Navajo counties. In accordance with section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Arizona now seeks a declaratory judgment from this court that the addition of these seats "does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of...

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