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HUCKABAY v. MOORE

No. 97-40619.

137 F.3d 871 (1998)

William Reed HUCKABAY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Edward MOORE, Individually and in His Official Capacity as County Commissioner, and Jefferson County, Texas, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 7, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence W. Watts, Watts & Associates, Houston, TX, for Huckabay.

Sonya Billingsley Coffman, Walter E. Umphrey, Provost & Umphrey, Beaumont, TX, for Moore.

Richard F. Baker, Steven L. Wiggins, Beaumont, TX, for Jefferson County, Texas.

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and SMITH and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges.

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

I.

William Huckabay, who is white, has worked as an employee of Jefferson County Precinct Four since 1976. Edward Moore, who is black, was elected Commissioner of Precinct Four in 1987. Huckabay alleges that upon his election, Moore immediately set out on a deliberate and overt program to make his precinct a "black precinct." According to Huckabay, Moore stated that "blacks had suffered for two hundred years, and now it was...

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