Correspondence from Winner to Wallace; Preliminary Request for Documents and Information Concerning Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment

    JULIUS LEVONNE CHAMBERS

JAMES E FERGUSON. II
MELVIN L WATT

JONATHAN WALI.I!i
KANL AOKINS

JAMES C. FULLER. JR.

WONNE MIMtl EVANS

.JOHN W GRESHAM

RONALO L. GIBSON
GILOA F. GLAZER

LESUE J. WINNER

JOHN T. NOCKLEBY'

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CHAMBERS, FERGUSON, WATT, WALLAS. ADKINS & FULLER. P.A
ATTORNEYS AT LAW

SUITE 73O EAST INDEPENOENCE PLAZA

95I SOUTH INOEPENOENCE AOULEVARO

CHARLOTTE. NORTH CAROLTNA 2A2O2 -27 96
TELEPHONE (7041 375-A46t

October L9, 1981

I'Ir. James Wallace, Jr.
Deputy Attorney General

for Legal Affairs
N.C. Attorney General's Office
Post Office Box 629
Raleigh, North Carolina 27602

Re: Ralph Gi.ngles, et al. v. Rufus
Edmisten, ec aI.; No. 81-803-CIV-5

Dear Jim:

As is obvious, I did not leave my list of documents for you on
Friday night. I do appreciate your arranging for me to use the
library on Friday night. That was a great help for me.

I have attached to this letter the list which I would have left.
I am sure I will see you or talk Eo you before you receive this,
but if not, give me a call when you do receive it.

":F1."k",

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Enclosure
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PRELIMINARY REQUEST FOR DOCI]MENTS AND
INTORMATION CONCERNING LEGISU.TI\E
AND CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTIONMENT

lnformation about redistricting during the 198I session of
the General Assemblv

a. Ihe names of the legislators who were members of
comtittees, subcornmittees, o! supersubcorrrrrligga.r concerned with
either legislative or congressional redistricting.

b. The names of all state enrployees who gave advice or pre-
pared information for the eomrittees or subco-mittees on Legisla-
tive or Congressional redistricting.

c. For each of these, please indicate the capacity in which
the staff members served and his or her address

_ d. Copies of the minutes of the House, Senate, or joint
redistricting comnittees and subcornnittees for redistricting the
General Assembly or Congressional Districts.

e. Copies of or access to tapes of the coumittee or sub-q6rrmiggge meetings and copies of any transcriptions of those tapes.

- -f. Copies of aII maps or plans for redistricting considered
by the committees or subcornmittees and the name of th; person sub-mitting the mep or plan plus all supporting documents and- any staffanalysis of the plan.

g. -CoPies of all memos from Ehe legislative staff or otherstate employeeg t9 lggitlators concerning-legislative or congressionalredistricting including instructions, guidelines, background-infor-
uiation, etc.

h. Copies of all documents which contain an analysis of or data
concerning the racial composition of counties or proposed legisla-tive-or congressional districts which were prepared ty legislativestaff or other state government employees f-or irse by iegiilators.

i. Copies of all correspondence from North Carolina Congress-
Itren or members of their staffs to the legislative staff, the Speakerof the House, the Lieutenant Governor, or the committee chairman or
subcommittee chairman and the responses to this correspondence.

- j.- copies of aLl srandards and guidelines adopEed by any ofthe redistricting cormnittees or subcoumiEtees



- k. -Copies 9{ any written staEements or requests uade by
members of the public and submitted to a redistricting counnittee
or subcommiEtee.

- t. Copies -of correspondence to the legislative staff or
to the Speaker of the House, the Lieutenant Governor, or the
corrrmiEtee chairgran_ from anyone offerring technical or computer
assistance to the legislature for redistricting and the responses
to those offers

m. A copy of the vote on the floor of the House and of the
Senate on each ledistricting bill which was proposed or adopted
and on each amendrnent to eac6 of the bilIs whlthlr or not thl amend-
ment was adopted.

n. Copies of all requests for information or for assistance
co_ncerning legislative or congressional redistricting from any memberof t_!g legislature to a membei of the legislative staff and rlrestafffs response to the requests.

o. All memos from the Speaker of the House or the Lieutenant
Gover:ror to members of the redistricting committees or subcorrmittees
concerning congressional or state legislative redistricting.

- p. Memos from the redistricting corrmrittee or subcomnittee
chairman to committee members excluding routine noEices of corrmittee
meetings

II. The followilg_iequests for information concern the January
L966- Special Session of the Legislature and rhe L967 Sessi6nof the General Assembly. Each-request is for both sessionsunless oEherwise indicated-
a. The n:mes and current address, if known, of alr membersof the corrnittees or subcomrittees which were concerned. with thelegislative apportionment plan adopted in L966 and of the cornmitteeswhich recoumended the adoption of Lhe apportionment provisions ofthe North Carolina constitution in L967'.'

,, .b. Copies of all cormtittee and subcomnittee minutes and publichearing records concerning the L966 apportionment plan or the NlrthCarolina constitutional piovisions in' igOZ

c. Copies of allproposedalternaEives or draft constitutionalpro-visions for apportionment whether made by staff members, committee
members, other legislators, or the public.

d. copies of all proposed alternative maps or plans foraPportionment of the General Asseubly proposed Ly legisLative sEaff,other goverruaent employees, committee memLers, olh"r"*"mbers of the'

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legi-slature,-or the public for use during the January, L966 sessionof the legislature.

. -e. Copies of all bi1ls, resolutions, cornmittee substitutes,
committee amendments, or amendments made on the floor of either Ehe
House or the Senate concerning legislative apportionment in L966or L967.

f. A copy of the vote on each apportionrDent bill or any
ProPosed amendment to it on the floor of the House or the Senate in
L966 and in L967.

- g-. Coqies of all staff recommendations, gridelines, instructions,
o-r background information given to the members 5f the legislature orthe relevant couunittees concerning the L966 apportionmenf and concerningthe L967 adoption of the consrituiional proviiions.

h. Copies of any statements submitted to the relevant cornmitteesby members of the public in L966 or L967.

i Copies of any memos between a member or members of the
}:gltlature and Alex Biock or the Board of Elections concerning rhe
L?69 appoltionment or concerning the adoption of the relevant i=o-visions of the North Carolina Constirutibn in L9G7.

- j. A coPy of the report of the Legislative Research Commissionof L967 ol apportionment of the General Assembly and copies of theminutes of that research commission in so far aL they concern appor-
tionment of the General Assembly

F. Any memorandum or report of members of the legislative staffor other gnployees of the State government Eo a member 5r members ofthe leg_islature written in 1965,-L966, or L957, concerning the impactof the Voting Rights Acr.

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