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CHEN v. CITY OF HOUSTON

No. 98-20440.

206 F.3d 502 (2000)

Edward CHEN, et al., Plaintiffs, Edward CHEN; Jon Taylor; Edward Blum; Barbara L. Thomas; Al Vera; Kenneth M. Powers; James White; Herschel Smith; Bill Wiener; Bernard Loebe; Chester Wrye; Edward Robert, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF HOUSTON; Bob Lanier, Honorable; Helen Huey, Honorable; Michael J. Yarbrough, Honorable; Martha J. Wong, Honorable; Jew Don Boney, Honorable; Rob Todd, Honorable; Ray F. Driscoll, Honorable; John Kelley, Honorable; Felix Fraga, Honorable; John Castillo, Honorable; Gracie Guzman Saenz, Honorable; Joe Roach, Honorable; Orlando Sanchez, Honorable; Chris Bell, Honorable; Judson W. Robinson, III, Honorable, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 9, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas E. Markham (argued), Houston, TX, Robert Popper, New York City, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

C. Robert Heath (argued), Lisa Royce Eskow, Bickerstaff, Heath, Smiley, Pollan, Kever & McDaniel, Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Robinson O. Everett, Everett & Everett, Durham, NC, Martin B. McGee, Williams, Boger, Grady, Davis & Tuttle, Concord, NC, for Americans for the Defense of Constitutional Rights (ADCR), Amicus Curiae.

Before GARWOOD, DUHÉ and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellants, residents of the City of Houston, filed this suit claiming that the City of Houston and the individual members of its City Council (collectively, the City) had violated the Fourteenth Amendment when they created the single member districts used to elect nine of the fifteen members of the Council. They claim that the City's 1997 redistricting violated the principle of one-person, one-vote, and that the districts created...

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