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MILWAUKEE BRANCH OF N.A.A.C.P. v. THOMPSON

No. 94-C-1245.

935 F.Supp. 1419 (1996)

MILWAUKEE BRANCH OF the N.A.A.C.P.; Felmers Chaney; Vincent Knox and Barbara White, Plaintiffs, Ramon Arellano Valdez and The Federation for Civic Action, Inc., Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. Governor Tommy THOMPSON; Senate President Brian D. Rude; Senate Majority Leader Michael G. Ellis; Senate Minority Leader Robert Jauch; Assembly Speaker Walter J. Kunicki; Assembly Majority Leader David M. Travis; Assembly Minority Leader David T. Prosser, Jr.; Milwaukee County Board of Election Commissioners; Commissioner Molly Koranda; Commissioner Webster Harris, Jr.; Commissioner Tillie Bichanich; City of Milwaukee Board of Elections Commissioners; Commissioner Rosemarie McDowell; and Commissioner Jean Novshek, Defendants, Wisconsin Association of Trial Judges; Patrick T. Sheedy and Frederick A. Henderson, Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin.

August 1, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Saks, Perry, Lerner & Quindel, Milwaukee, WI, Dennis Courtland Hayes, Willie Abrams, NAACP-Special Contribution Fund, Baltimore, MD, Todd A. Cox, Brenda J. Wright, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

James E. Doyle, Jr., Peter C. Anderson, Kathleen M. Falk, Office of Attorney General, Wisconsin Dept. of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants Governor Tommy Thompson, Senate President Brian D. Rude, Senate Majority Leader Michael G. Ellis, Senate Minority Leader Robert Jauch, Assembly Speaker Walter J. Kunicki, Assembly Majority Leader David M. Travis, Assembly Minority Leader David T. Prosser, Jr.

Thomas L. Shriner, Jr., Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Intervenors.

DECISION and ORDER

MYRON L. GORDON, District Judge.

On November 10, 1994, the plaintiffs filed this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs asserted claims under § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, ["VRA"], as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1973, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution regarding the statutory provisions of the state of Wisconsin and the procedures followed for the election...

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