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PEREZ v. PASADENA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST.

Nos. 97-20345, 97-20489.

165 F.3d 368 (1999)

Rosalinda L. PEREZ; Dolores E. Garcia; Maggie Ramirez; Zina Gonzales; Maria Gonzales; Celestino M. Perez, Jr.; Jenky M. Diaz; David R. Segura; Rudy N. Trevino; Robert Martinez; Yvonne Ruth; Pasadena Citizens for Equitable Representation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PASADENA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT; Carmen Orosco; Denny Delafield; Vickie Morgan; Bob Blair; Marshall Kendricks; Harvey Turner; John Elam, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 29, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose Garza, Edinburg, TX, Frumencio J. Reyes, Jr., Reyes and Reyes-Castillo, Houston, TX, Judith A. Sanders-Castro, Les Mendelsohn & Associates, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

David Frishman, Katy, TX, Ronald Steven Block, Bernard Erwin Brooks, Block & Muscat, Stafford, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before KING, Chief Judge, and JONES and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

KING, Chief Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellants, Hispanic residents of the Pasadena Independent School District and an unincorporated association consisting of individual plaintiffs-appellants, allege that the at-large election system used by defendants-appellees, Pasadena Independent School District and members of its board of trustees, for choosing school trustees violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (1994) (as amended). The district...

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