U.S. v. McKINLEY COUNTY, N.M.

No. CIV-86-0028.

941 F.Supp. 1062 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. McKINLEY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, McKinley County Board of Commissioners, Gloria P. Howes, Russell A. King, Earnest C. Becenti, McKinley County Board of Commissioners, Gloria A. Lente, McKinley County Clerk, and Ernest J. Marquez, Director, McKinley County Bureau of Elections, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Mexico.

September 24, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Kelly, United States Attorney; Deval L. Patrick, Assistant Attorney General; Elizabeth Johnson, Barry Weinberg, Susana Lorenzo-Giguere and Luis Torres, Voting Rights Section, Dept. of Justice, Wash., D.C., for Plaintiff.

James J. Mason, Mason, Isaacson & Macik, PA, Gallup, New Mexico, for Defendants.


OPINION ORDER

Before BALDOCK, Circuit Judge, CONWAY, Chief District Judge, and MECHEM, Senior District Judge.*

PER CURIAM.

Backed by court-approved consent decrees, Plaintiff United States has kept careful watch over the electoral process of McKinley County, New Mexico, for the past ten years. Plaintiff now asserts that ten additional years of federal intervention into McKinley County's electoral process is warranted...

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