Letter to Professor Thad Beyle

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LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorney
- Leslie J. Winner
Organization
- NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc.
Matter
- Gingles
Case
- Thornburg v. Gingles
U.S. state
- North Carolina
Collection
- Case Files
Taxonomy
Identifier
- 723fb537-d392-ee11-be37-00224827e97b

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Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Hardbacks, Briefs, and Trial Transcript. Letter to Professor Thad Beyle, 1983. 723fb537-d392-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/036de3a3-76c1-4554-97d8-f4bddfef3776/letter-to-professor-thad-beyle. Accessed April 18, 2025.

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CHAMBERS. FERGUSON, WATT, WALLAS. ADKINS & FULLER, P.A.

ATTORNEYS AT LA\M

SUITE 73O EAST INDEPENDENCE PLAZA

951 SOUTH INOEPENOENCE BOULEVARD

CHARLOTTE. NORTH CAROLINA 28202
TELEPHONE (704) 375-8461

l{arch 24, 1983

JULIUS LEVONNE CHAMBERS

JAMES E, FERGUSON. II

MELVIN L, WATT

JONATHAN WALLAS

KARL ADKINS

JAMES C, FULLER. JR,

YVONNE MIMS EVANS

JOHN \^/, GRESHAM

RONALD L, GIBSON

GILDA F, GLAZER

LESLIE J. WINNER

JOHN T. NOCKLEBY'

.oF O.C. BAR ALSO

Professor Thad Beyle
Department of Political Science
Chapel Hi1l, North Carolina 275L4

Re: Gingles v. Edmlsten

Dear Thad:

Please
know I
In any
helpful

pardon my extreme delay in writing this letter. I
promissed to contact you in a week, not a month.
event, I did enjoy our conversation. It was very
to me.

It is my understanding that we c€rme to the following
agreement, subject to my getting funding approval:

1.. You will- supervise a grad student to study
the I-ingering effects of discrimination in
registration and voting in North Carolina.
If the results warrant it, you will then
be prepared to testify on that topic.

2. You will ask Mark Lanier, who is currently
studying the majority vote requirement for
North Carolina Insights, to include the
racial impact of the majority vote require-
ment in his study. You will then also be
prepared to testify on that topic.

3. You will study the tenuousness of the policy
of using whole counties as the building
blocks for legislative districts in the
North Carolina Legislature considering,
in particular, the changing role of the

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Professor Thad Beyle
l,larch 24, 1983
Page 2

Legislature in county gevernment and
alternate ways that the legitimate
needs of county governments can be
met.

To do this you estimated a cost of $600. This is broken
down into 50 hours of graduate student time at $6 per hour
plus $:OO to you which-incl-udes your supervision oi the
graduate students and incidental expenses. Pursuant to
our _origila1 agreement with Pete Harkinsr w€ have alreadypaid you for two days of time to prepare court testimony
and time in court.

I have discussed this proposal with my co-counsel, and she
agrees that it is a good arrangement and that we ought to
pursue it. I hope that my delay in writing you has not
made it impossibLe. rt wilr be extremely useful information
and I bel-ieve that you will be a good-witness. If there
are any probl-ems, p1-ease gi-ve me a ca11.

As I t-ol-d- you, our court date has been set for Ju1.y 25.
We probably need to have the testimony basically rbady and
exhibits identified by at least two months prior to that
date. If this will present a major time problem, please
let me know.

You also agreed to see if you can discover anyone who is
knowledgeable about racial appeals and elections in general
or in North Carolina in particular. If you have been suc-
cessful in finding such a person, I would appreciate your
telling me so that I can contact him or her.-

If you !r?r. any questions about any of this, please give
me a caJ-l.

In the meantime, I hope that you are doing well and enjoying
the springtime.

LJW: ddb
cc: Ms. Lani Guiner

Mr. Steve Suitts

rely,

eslie In/inner

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Letter to Professor Thad Beyle

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