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NORTHWEST AUSTIN MUN. UTIL. DIST. ONE v. MUKASEY

Civil Action No. 06-1384.

557 F.Supp.2d 9 (2008)

NORTHWEST AUSTIN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NUMBER ONE, Plaintiff, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General of the United States, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

May 30, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christian J. Ward, Gregory S. Coleman, Yetter & Warden, LLP, Austin, TX, Erik Scott Jaffe, Erik S. Jaffe, P.C., Washington, DC, for Plaintiff.

Sarah Harrington, Thomas Christian Herren, Jr., Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

Before: FRIEDMAN and SULLIVAN, District Judges, and TATEL, Circuit Judge.

OPINION

DAVID S. TATEL, Circuit Judge:

Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits "covered jurisdictions"— those states and political subdivisions with histories of racial discrimination in voting—from making any change in their voting procedures without first demonstrating to either the Attorney General or a three-judge panel of this court that the change "neither has the purpose nor will have the effect of denying or abridging...

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