Legal Opinion · Dissent
Graves v. Barnes
District Court, W.D. Texas
Decided May 28, 1974No. Civ. A. A-71-CA 142 to A-71-CA-145, A-73-CA-115, A-73-CA-146, A-73-CA-155Published
1Dissent
JOHN H. WOOD, Jr., District Judge
(dissenting).
Forewarned, but undaunted by our original judicial foray into the political jungle two years ago in Graves v. Barnes, 343 F.Supp. 704 (W.D.Tex. 1972), the majority of this Court again sallies forth on another legislative reapportionment expedition. Contrary to my *664fellow travelers on the Panel, I do not find the scythe of the recent jurisprudence adequate to cleave a path through a myriad of thorny legal precepts. Initially, it may have been a relatively easy search to find a clearing in Dallas and Bexar Counties. However, the remaining multimember…
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- Keyes v. School Dist. No. 1, DenverSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Whitcomb v. ChavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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