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AFFIRM; and Opinion Filed July 15, 2014. S In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas No. 05-13-01174-CV MARK BAKER, Appellant V. THE CITY OF FARMERS BRANCH, TEXAS; WILLIAM GLANCY, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY; FLOYD JEFF FULLER, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY; KIRK CONNALLY, IN HIS OFF

SIDNEY A. FITZWATER, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE This is a suit by Anglo voters of Dallas County, Texas who maintain that their rights under § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ("VRA"), 52 U.S.C. § 10301 et seq. , and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment have been violated by the abse

MEMORANDUMÍ-DECISION and ORDER LAWRENCE E. KAHN, District Judge. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION.308 II. LEGAL STANDARD . CO o co A. Voting Rights Act. CO o CO B. Gingles Framework. CO l — O III. FINDINGS OF FACT. T — ( A. Background. 1 — | 1. Parties. T — I 2. County Redist

RULING AND ORDER BRIAN A. JACKSON, Chief Judge. Before the Court is Defendant’s MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT (Doc. 59), filed by Defendant Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (“LSU”), seeking an order from this Court dismissing Plaintiff Anthony Minnis’s (“Minnis”) claims against it, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56. Min-nis oppo

NELVA GONZALES RAMOS, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Plaintiffs challenge statewide, at-large elections of all justices to the Supreme Court of Texas and judges to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 52 U.S.C. § 10301. They allege that at-large voting has diluted the

ORDER JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge, ORLANDO L. GARCIA, District Judge, XAVIER RODRIGUEZ, District Judge. On this date, the Court considered Plaintiffs’ Motions for Attorneys’ Fees, Expenses, and Costs (docket nos. 193 & 194), and the responses and replies thereto. I. Background On September 22, 2011, Plaintiffs Wendy Davis, Marc Veasey, Roy Brooks, Vicky Bargas

OPINION NELVA GONZALES RAMOS, District Judge. The right to vote: It defines our nation as a democracy. It is the key to what Abraham Lincoln so famously extolled as a “government of the people, by the people, [and] for the people.”1 The Supreme Court of the United States, placing the power of the right to vote in context, explained: “Especially since the right to ex

889 F.Supp. 1146 (1995) Alejandro MADRID, et al., on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. James GOMEZ, Director, California Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants. No. C90-3094-TEH. United States District Court, N.D. California. January 10, 1995. *1147 *1148</