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RODGERS v. COMMISSIONERS COURT OF SAN AUGUSTINE

No. B-79-679-CA.

483 F.Supp. 779 (1980)

Rev. Clois RODGERS, Earnest Mosley, Earl Moore, Willie Clark, Herbert Brooks, and Arthur Watts, Plaintiffs, v. COMMISSIONERS COURT OF SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTY and Wyatt C. Teal, County Judge, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

February 4, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Richards, Austin, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Jerry L. Smith, San Augustine, Tex., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ROBERT M. PARKER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this action under the Fourteenth Amendment, 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 requesting the Court to order the Defendants to implement a new apportionment plan for the County Commissioners Court in San Augustine County and to enjoin future elections under the existing plan, which was devised by the Defendants in 1971. On the 28th day of January, 1980...

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