LA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO v. ABBOTT

No. 23-50201.

93 F.4th 310 (2024)

LA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO; Friendship-West Baptist Church; Southwest Voter Registration Education Project; Texas Impact; Mexican American Bar Association of Texas; Texas Hispanics Organized for Political Education; Jolt Action; William C. Velasquez Institute; James Lewin; Fiel Houston, Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gregory W. ABBOTT, in his Official Capacity as Governor of Texas, et al., v. Senator Paul Bettencourt; Representative Briscoe Cain, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED February 16, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nina Perales , Mexican-American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, San Antonio, TX, Jason Scott Kanterman , Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, L.L.P., New York, NY, Elizabeth Ryan , Weil, Gotshal & Manges, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee La Union del Pueblo Entero.

Zachary Tripp , Weil, Gotshal & Manges, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Aaron J. Curtis (argued), Weil, Gotshal & Manges, L.L.P., New York, NY, Sean Morales-Doyle , Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY, Elizabeth Ryan , Weil, Gotshal & Manges, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Friendship-West Baptist Church, Texas Impact, James Lewin.

Nina Perales , Mexican-American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, San Antonio, TX, Jason Scott Kanterman , Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, Mexican American Bar Association of Texas, Texas Hispanics Organized for Political Education, JOLT Action, William C. Velasquez Institute, Fiel Houston, Incorporated.

Lanora Christine Pettit , William Francis Cole (argued), Esq. , Office of the Texas Attorney General, Solicitor General Division, Austin, TX, Michael Abrams , Office of the Attorney General, Austin, TX, Kathleen Theresa Hunker , Office of the Attorney General of Texas, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, for Appellants.

Before Smith, Graves, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.


Appellees1 (collectively "LUPE") seek to discover, from defendant-intervenor Harris County Republican Party ("HCRP"), documents and communications sent to or exchanged with the Texas Legislature and various members of the Texas executive branch...

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