United States Fifth Circuit

Grant of an injunction to prevent the removal of Tom DeLay's name from a ballot for congressional election and to prevent the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) from replacing him with a new candidate is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not err when it held that the Texas ineligibility statute was unconstitutional as applied; and 2) alternatively, the declaration of DeLay's ineligibility violated the Texas Election Code.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/03/2006
• Published 08/04/2006

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before BENAVIDES, DENNIS and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Bopp, Jr. (argued), Raeanna Sue Moore, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for Benkiser., R. Ted Cruz, Office of Sol. Gen., TX, Austin, TX, Amici Curiae for Williams., Andrius R. Kontrimas, Jenkins & Gilchrist, Houston, TX, Amicus Curiae for Wallace for Congress., Susan L. Hays, Curran Tomko Tarski, Dallas, TX, Amicus Curiae for 68th Texas Legislature.


• For Appellees:
  
• Chad Wilson Dunn (argued), Brazil & Dunn, Martin Jonathan Siegel (argued), Watts Law Firm, Houston, TX, Mikal C. Watts, Watts Law Firm, Corpus Christi, TX, Richard A. Grigg, Law Offices of Dicky Grigg, Cristen D. Feldman, Crews & Elliott, Austin, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.