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TEXAS v. U.S.

Civil Action No. 11-1303 (TBG-RMC-BAH).

831 F.Supp.2d 244 (2011)

State of TEXAS, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, and Eric H. Holder, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States, Defendants, and Wendy Davis, et al., Intervenor-Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 22, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David John Schenck , Office of the Attorney General, Austin, TX, for Plaintiff.

Daniel J. Freeman , Janie Allison Sitton , Michelle Andrea McLeod , Olimpia E. Michel , Thornton Russell Nobile, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

Joseph Gerald Hebert , Alexandria, VA, Mark A. Posner , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, John M. Devaney , Marc Erik Elias , Perkins Coie, LLP, Karen M. Soares , Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Washington, DC, Joaquin Avila , Law Office of Joaquin G. Avila, Kevin J. Hamilton , Perkins Coie, LLP, Seattle, WA, Jose Garza , Law Office of Jose Garza, Marisa Bono , Rebecca McNeill Couto , Mexican American Legal Defense And Educational Fund, San Antonio, TX, Renea Hicks , Law Offices of Max Renea Hicks, Robert Stephen Notzon , Gary L. Bledsoe , Law Office of Gary L. Bledsoe and Associate, Austin, TX, Nina Perales , Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., Jorge Martin Castillo , Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, New York, NY, Allison Jean Riggs , Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC, for Intervenor-Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

COLLYER, District Judge.

In the summer of 2011, the Texas legislature redrew the boundaries for voting districts in the State to account for the report of the 2010 Census that its population had grown in the last decade by more than four million people, about two-thirds of whom are Hispanic. As required by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Texas has asked this Court for a declaratory judgment that its redistricting plans have neither...

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