League of United Latin American Citizens, Council No. 4434 v. Clements
| Decision Date | 16 May 1990 |
| Docket Number | No. 90-8014,90-8014 |
| Citation | 902 F.2d 322 |
| Parties | LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS, COUNCIL NO. 4434, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Jesse Oliver, et al., Intervening Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William P. CLEMENTS, etc., et al., Defendants, Jim Mattox, et al., Defendants-Appellants, v. Judge F. Harold ENTZ, etc., Judge Sharolyn Wood, Etc., and George S. Bayoud, Jr., etc., Defendants-Appellants, and Tom Rickhoff, Susan D. Reed, John J. Specia, Jr., Sid L. Harle, Sharon Macrae and Michael P. Pedan, Bexar County, Texas State District Judges, Appellants. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit |
Ken Oden, Travis County Atty., David R. Richards, Sp. Counsel, Austin, Tex., and Mark H. Dettman, Midland, Tex., for Dist. Judges of Travis County.
Rolando L. Rios and Susan Finkelstein, San Antonio, Tex., for League of United Latin American Citizens and Christina Moreno.
Walter L. Irvin, Dallas, Tex., for amici Brashear, et al. on behalf of appellees.
William L. Garrett, Garrett, Thompson & Chang, Dallas, Tex., for LULAC.
Gabriell K. McDonald, Matthews & Branscomb, Austin, Tex., for Legislative Black Caucus and Houston Lawyers Assoc.
Renea Hicks, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Javier Guajardo, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for Mattox, et al. and Bayoud (in his official capacity only).
Sherrilyn A. Ifill, N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Ed. Fund, Inc., New York City, for Houston Lawyers Assoc.
Edward B. Cloutman, III, Mullinax, Wells, Baab & Cloutman and E. Brice Cunningham, Dallas, Tex., for Jesse Oliver, et al., (Dallas County plaintiff/interventors).
Robert H. Mow, Jr., Bobby M. Rubarts, David C. Godbey, Jr., Hughes & Luce and Sidney Powell, Strausburger & Price, Dallas, Tex., for Entz.
J. Eugene Clements and Evelyn V. Keyes, Porter & Clements, Houston, Tex., for Wood.
John L. Hill, Jr. and Andy Taylor, Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & Laboon, Houston, Tex., for Bayoud.
Seagal V. Wheatley, Donald R. Philbin, Jr., Oppenheimer, Rosenberg, Kelleher & Wheatley, Gerald H. Goldstein, Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley, Joel H. Pullen, Kaufman, Becker, Pullen & Reibach, San Antonio, Tex., for Rickhoff, et al.
R. James George, Jr., Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, John M. Harmon, Margaret H. Taylor, Austin, Tex., for Chapman, Stovall, Schraub, Cornyn, Hester, Paxson, Kirk & Walker.
Michael E. Tigar, Austin, Tex. and Royal B. Lea, III, San Antonio, Tex., for Bexar County, etc., et al.
Michael Ramsey, Ramsey & Tyson, Houston, Tex., for amicus 27 Incumbent Judges of Harris County on behalf of appellant Wood.
Daniel M. Ogden, Washington Legal Foundation, Paul Strohl, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae, Washington Legal Foundation, in support of defendant-intervenor Dallas County Judge F. Harold Entz.
Thomas F. Rugg, Chief, County Dist. Attorney's Office, Beaumont, Tex., for amicus curiae, Jefferson County Dist. Judges (except Floyd, etc.)
Appeals from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Lucius Desha Bunton, III, Chief Judge. Prior Report: 902 F.2d 293.)
Before CLARK, Chief Judge, GEE, REAVLEY, POLITZ...
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