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HAYS v. STATE OF LOUISIANA

Civ. A. No. 92-1522.

862 F.Supp. 119 (1994)

Ray HAYS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF LOUISIANA, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.

July 29, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay B. McCallum, Robun & McCallum, Farmerville, LA, Thomas G. Zentner, Jr., Theus Grisham, Davis & Leigh, Monroe, LA, Paul L. Hurd, Monroe, LA, Robert Richard Gasaway, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, for Ray Hays, Edward L. Adams, Susan Shaw Singleton, Gary Stokley.

Roy A. Mongrue, Jr., Atty. General's Office, Baton Rouge, LA, for State of Louisiana, Edwin W. Edwards, Samuel B. Nunez, Jr., John A. Alario, Jr., W. Fox McKeithen, Jerry M. Fowler.

Sydney B. Nelson, Nelson & Hammons, Shreveport, LA, for Richard H. Baker, Clyde C. Holloway.

William P. Quigley, Loyola Law School Clinic, New Orleans, LA, for Bernadine St. Cyr, Calvin Wilkerson, Ed Jones, Donald Thibodeax, Patrick Fontenot, Hazel Freeman, Zelma Wyche, Janice Frazier, Ralph Wilson.

A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., New York City, for Congressional Black Caucus.

Benjamin Jones, Jones & Smith, Monroe, LA, Robert B. McDuff, Jackson, MS, J. Gerald Hebert, Lawyers Cmte for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus.

William J. Flanagan, U.S. Attys. Office, Shreveport, LA, Colleen M. Kane, Matthew G. Olsen, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for U.S.

Before WIENER, Circuit Judge, SHAW, Chief District Judge, and WALTER, District Judge.

By order dated June 27, 1994, this case was remanded from the United States Supreme Court for further proceedings, ___ U.S. ___, 114 S.Ct. 2731, 129 L.Ed.2d 853. For the following reasons, Act 1 of the Second Extraordinary Session of the 1994 Louisiana Legislature is null and void. The State of Louisiana is hereby enjoined from holding any future Congressional elections based upon the redistricting scheme embodied by Act 1.

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