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ARROYO v. TUCKER

Civ. A. No. 73-2247.

372 F.Supp. 764 (1974)

Peggy ARROYO and Petra Gonzales et al. v. Dolores TUCKER, et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 25, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cesar A. Perales, Herbert Teitelbaum, Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., New York City, Nelson A. Diaz, William Traylor, Temple University Legal Aid Office, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Michael Minkin, Deputy Atty. Gen., Commonwealth of Pa., Philadelphia, Pa., for Tucker.

John M. McNally, Jr., First Deputy City Sol., Philadelphia, Pa., for Patterson, Maier and Menna.

OPINION

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs bring this action to compel the defendants Philadelphia County Commissioners and Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to implement a bilingual English-Spanish electoral process in order to provide assistance to persons of Puerto Rican birth or extraction who speak, read, write and comprehend English with severe difficulty or not at all. Plaintiffs' claims rest on the Voting Rights Act (42 U.S...

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