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LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS v. ABBOTT

No. 19-50214.

951 F.3d 311 (2020)

LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS; League of United Latin American Citizens of Texas; Joseph C. Parker, Jr.; Hector Flores; Sanford Levinson; Yvonne M. Davis; Mary Ramos; Gloria Ray; Guadalupe Torres; Ray Velarde; Doris Williams, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Greg ABBOTT, Governor of the State of Texas; David Whitley, in his official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of Texas, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED February 26, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Boies , Boies, Schiller & Flexner, L.L.P., Armonk, NY, Maria Amelia Calaf , Wittliff Cutter, P.L.L.C., Austin, TX, Amy J. Mauser, Esq. , Boies, Schiller & Flexner, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Matthew Hamilton Frederick , Deputy Solicitor General, Office of the Solicitor General for the State of Texas, Todd Lawrence Disher, Patrick K. Sweeten , Office of Attorney General for the State of Texas, Austin, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.

Gregory S. Hudson , Cozen O'Connor, P.C., Houston, TX, for Amicus Curiae Edward B. Foley.

Before DAVIS, SMITH, and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

The plaintiffs—several organizations and eligible voters—challenge the constitutionality of Texas's winner-take-all ("WTA") method for selecting presidential electors. They contend that WTA violates the one-person, one-vote principle rooted in the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and...

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