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LOVE v. FOSTER

No. 96-30429.

90 F.3d 1026 (1996)

G. Scott LOVE, Paul S. Bergeron, Kathleen B. Balhoff, and Bennie Baker-Bourgeois, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Michael J. FOSTER, Jr., Governor of State of Louisiana, and Fox McKeithen, Secretary of State of Louisiana, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 30, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Balhoff, Judith R. Atkinson, Roedel, Parsons, Hill & Koch, Baton Rouge, LA, Daniel Joseph Balhoff, John S. Baker, Baton Rouge, LA, M. Miller Baker, Carr, Goodson & Lee, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Roy A. Mongrue, Jr., Asst. Atty. General, Angie Rogers LaPlace, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, for defendants-appellees.

Before DAVIS and DENNIS, Circuit Judges, and FALLON, District Judge.

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, four Louisiana voters, appeal from the district court's order granting defendants' motion for summary judgment and dismissing plaintiffs' suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on grounds that Louisiana's method of conducting congressional elections violates the Constitution and laws of the United States. We reverse.

I.

In August 1995 four Louisiana citizens, who are registered to vote in Louisiana...

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