Legal Opinion
Graves v. Barnes
District Court, W.D. Texas
Decided January 28, 1972No. Civ. A. A-71-CA-142 to A-7 l-CA-145PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Per curiam
We are once again in the Texas sector of the political thicket of legislative redistricting and required to contour the condition of the individual trees as well as the physiography of the forest as we explore for “crazy quilts,” “groves,” contiguity, compactness, specie, motivation in planting, and other possible impedimenta to constitutionality in redistricting. In ten years of wandering about this political thicket, we have not yet found the burning bush of final explanation.1 While political processes do not easily lend themselves to judicial explorations, the Supreme Court has directed…
2Cases cited65 opinions
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3Cited by87 opinions
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