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COALITION TO PRESERVE HOUSTON v. INTERIM BD., ETC.

Civ. A. Nos. H-77-92, H-77-121

494 F.Supp. 738 (1980)

COALITION TO PRESERVE HOUSTON and the Houston Independent School District, Plaintiff, v. INTERIM BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF the WESTHEIMER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. WESTHEIMER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

July 1, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Pannill, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff Coalition.

Harvey Knudson, Atty. in Charge, J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civil Rights Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Mary L. Sinderson, Local Counsel, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for United States.

James Ross, Houston, Tex., for defendant Interim Bd. of WISD.

Nathan Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendant State of Texas and Texas Ed. Agency.

Before BROWN, Circuit Judge, and CARL O. BUE and O'CONOR, District Judges.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1971 et seq., ("the Act"), Section 5, prohibits a state or political subdivision from enacting or seeking to administer any voting qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure different from that in effect on November 1, 1972 without first either instituting a declaratory judgment action in the United States...

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