Legal Opinion
Overton v. City of Austin
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 3, 1984No. Nos. 84-1745, 84-1835 and 84-1878PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:
This case involves the consolidated appeals of Black plaintiffs, Mexican-American plaintiffs-intervenors, and the defendant City of Austin, who seek relief from what they characterize as a refusal by the district court to approve and enter proposed consent decrees. The proposed decrees would have required the City of Austin to permanently adopt, beginning in April 1985, a city council election system having all eight councilmembers elected from single-member districts and a mayor elected at large, in lieu of its present system in which all six councilmembers and the…
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