United States Fifth Circuit

Plaintiff's claim that the redistricting of defendant-County's Justice of the Peace and Constable Precincts impermissibly dilutes the votes of Hispanics in violation of the Voting Rights Act is dismissed where there is no legal or factual basis for a finding of vote dilution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/17/2004
• Published 09/20/2004

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, DENNIS and PICKERING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Leslie Stephen Mendelsohn (argued), Les Mendelsohn & Associates, Judith A. Sanders-Castro, Tex. Rural Legal Aid Inc., Kimberly S. Keller, The Keller Group, Jose Garza, Tex. Rural Legal Aid, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants., C. Robert Heath (argued), Sydney W. Falk, Jr., Bickerstaff, Heath, Smiley, Pollan, Kever & McDaniel, Austin, TX, for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.