CHEN v. CITY OF HOUSTON

No. 99-1946.

532 U.S. 1046 (2001)

CHEN ET AL. v. CITY OF HOUSTON ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

May 21, 2001.


Certiorari denied.

JUSTICE THOMAS, dissenting.

Petitioners, Houston residents, filed suit against the city of Houston and alleged that the city violated the Equal Protection Clause when it redrew its single-member city council districts in 1997. Petitioners argued that the city engaged in racial gerrymandering when it devised the 1997 plan and that the districts did not conform to the one-person, one-vote requirements articulated by this Court. The District...

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