In view of the length of this opinion, 1 a summary of the pertinent facts and major legal conclusions may be helpful to the reader:Īs with all cases under the Voting Rights Act, this one is driven by the facts. We therefore affirm the district court's decision in part, reverse the decision in part, and remand the case to the district court for consideration and imposition of an appropriate remedy. After a careful review of the record, we hold (1) that the district court correctly concluded, in eight of the counties at issue, that Texas' method of electing district court judges violates Section 2, but (2) that the district court erred in finding a Section 2 violation in Travis County. In particular, we must decide whether the district court erred in concluding that the method by which Texas elects district court judges - as that method operates in nine counties - violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. We must now address a question that is undoubtedly easier to frame than to answer. § 1973, applies to all Texas judicial elections. 2376, 115 L.Ed.2d 379 (1991), in which the Court held that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. This case is before us on remand from the Supreme Court's decision in Houston Lawyers' Association v. Order Granting Rehearing En Banc February 11, 1993. Pullen, Kaufman, Becker, Pullen & Reibach, San Antonio, TX, for Rickhoff, et al.īefore KING, JOHNSON and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.
Goldstein, Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley, Joel J. Philbin, Jr., Oppenheimer, Rosenberg, Kelleher & Wheatley, Gerald H. Keyes, Porter & Clements, Houston, TX, for Wood.
Roberts, Hughes & Luce, Dallas, TX, Sidney Powell, Strasburger & Price, Dallas, TX, for Entz. Thibodeaux, Lake Charles, LA, for Janice Clark, et al.ĭavid C. Richardson Bobb, Baton Rouge, LA, Ulysses G. Gale, III, Maynard, Cooper, Frierson & Gale, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for amicus State of Ala.īarbara R. Michael Rubin, Rubin, Curry, Colvin & Joseph, Baton Rouge, LA, for LA Dist. of State, Baton Rouge, LA, for LA Secretary of State. of Justice, Baton Rouge, LA, for amicus Roemer, et al.Ĭynthia Rougeou, Legal Div., Office of the Sec. Attorney's Office, Beaumont, TX, for amicus curiae, Jefferson County Dist. Ogden, Paul Strohl, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae, Washington Legal Foundation, in support of defendant-intervenor Dallas County Judge F. Michael Ramsey, Ramsey & Tyson, Houston, TX, on behalf of appellant Wood, for amicus 27 incumbent Judges of Harris County.ĭaniel M. Lea, III, Austin, TX, for Bexar County, etc., et al. Taylor, Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, Austin, TX, for Chapman, Stovall, Schraub, Cornyn, Hester, Paxson, Kirk & Walker. Brice Cunningham, Dallas, TX, for Jesse Oliver, et al. Cloutman, III, Cloutman, Albright & Bower, E. Counsel, New York City, for Houston Lawyers Assoc.Įdward B.
Fund, Inc., Julius Levonne Chambers, Dir. and Bayoud (in his official capacity only). Walker, Austin, TX, for Legislative Black Caucus and Houston Lawyers Assoc. Garrett, Garrett, Thompson & Chang, Dallas, TX, for League of United Latin American Citizens, et al.
Irvin, Dallas, TX, for amicus Brashear, et al. Rios, Susan Finkelstein, San Antonio, TX, for League of United Latin American Citizens and Christina Moreno. Dettman, Atty., Midland, TX, for District Judges of Travis County.
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