Order

    JULIUS LEVONNE CHAMBERS

JAMES E. FERGUSON. II

MELVIN L. WATT

JONATHAN WALLAS

KARL AOKINS

JAMES C- FULLER. JR.

YVONNE MIMS EVANS

JOHN W. GRESHAM

RONALD L. GIBSON

GILDA F. GLAZER

LESLIE J. lnr'INNER

JOHN T. NOCKLEBY'

. OF D. C, BAR ONLY

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

SUITE 73O EAST INDEPENDENCE PLAZA

95I SOUTH INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD

CHARLOTTE. NORTH CAROLTNA 2A2O2 _27 95
TELEPHONE (704) 375-846t

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 Gingles, et al. v. Rufus
Edmisten, et al.; No. 81-803-CIV-5

UCAT JIIn:

As is obvious, r did not leave my list of documents for you on
Ifld"y night. r do appreciate your arranging for me to use thelibrary on Friday night. That was a greai help for me.

I have attached to this letter the list which I would have 1eft.r am sure r will see you_or talk to you before you receive this,but if not, give me a call when you do receive it.
Sincerely,

J. I,rIinner

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Enclosure
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I. Information
Ehe General

PRELIMINARY REQUEST FOR DOCIJMENTS AND
INFORMAIION CONCERNING LEGISI,ATI\E
AND CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTIONMENT

about redistricting during the 1981 Session
As sembly

of

a. The names of the legislators who were members ofcommittees, subcommittees, or supersubconrmittees concerned witheither legislative or congressional redistricting
b. The names of all state employees who gave advice or pre-pared information for the comrnittees oi subcon-fttees on Legisia-tive or Congressional redistricting.
c. For each of these-,- please- indicate the capacity in whichthe staff members servedandhis or her address. ^

d.. copies of the minutes of the House, senate, or jointredistricting- cornrnittees and subcommittees for redisiricting it"General Assembly or Congressional Districts.

-e. copies of or access to tapes of the cormittee or sub-conrmittee meetings and copies of any transcriptions of those i"p"".

" - t. Copies of aII FaPs gr plans for redisEricting consideredby the seTrrnigggss or subcb'r,mittles and the name of th; p;;;;;-r"u-mitting the map or plan plus all supporting documengs and'4ny rt"ifanalysis of the plan

g. -Copies of all memos from the legislative staff or otherstate employee? t9 lggi"Iators concerning-legislative or 
"o"ti"rrionalre districr ing including insrrucr ions, g,lfde1I"; ;; -u"-tgro;;a"i;f;; 

-mation, etc.

h. . Copies of all docuoents which contain an analysis of or dataconcerning the racial ggmposition of counties or prop6sed legisfa--tivg-or con-gressional districts which were p=eprrld tv leeisfativestaff or other srare governmenr emproyees fbi-i;;-ty-i";i3i;;;;;.-
i. Copies of all correspondence from North Carolina Congress-men or members of their staffi to the legislative stafi, th; !p""t"tof. the House, the Lieutenant Governor, or the cornmittee chairman orsubcommittee chairman and the ="rpo.r"s to this correspondence.
j.- copies of all standards and guidelines adopted by any ofthe redistricting cornmittees or subcoufrittees.



k. _Copies of any written statements or requests made by
members of the public and submitted to a redistricting committee
or subcommittee.

1. Copies of correspondence to the legislative staff or
to the Speaker of the House, the Lieutenant Governor, or the
cornmittee chairman from anyone offerring technical or computer
assistance to the legislature for redistricting and the responses
to those offers.

m. A eopy of the vote on the floor of the House and of the
Senate on each redistricting bill which was proposed or adopEed
and on each amendment to each of the bil1s whether or not the amend-
ment was adopted.

n. Copies of all requests for information or for assistance
co-ncerning legislative or congressional redistricting from any member
of t_he legislature to a member of the legislative staff and the
staff's response to the requesEs.

o. All memos from the Speaker of the House or the Lieutenant
Governor to members of the redistricting coumittees or subcornmittees
concerning congressional or state legislative redistricting.

p. Memos from
chairman to committee

the redistricting committee or subcomniEtee
members excluding routine notices of corrmittee

II. The following_requests for information concern the January
L9-66 Special Session of the Legislature and the L967 Sessionof the General AssembIy. Each-request is for both sessionsunless otherwise indicated.
a. The names and current address, if knovn:, of arr membersof the corrnittees or subcornmittees which were concerned with thel-egi.slative apportionment plan adopted in L966 and. of the comrittees

which recomroen-ded the adoption of i:he apportionment provisions ofthe North Carolina constitution in L967'.

, .b. Copies of all comrittee and subcoumittee minutes and publichearing records concerning the l-966 apportionment plan or the NorthCarolina constitutional piovisions Ln' L967

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

d. copies of all proposed alternative maps or plans foraPPortionment of the General Assembly proposed ty legislative staff,other government 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 bi11s, resolutions, comnittee substitutes,
comrnittee amendments, or amendments made on the floor of either the
House or the SenaEe concerning legislative apportionment in 1966
or L967.

f. A copy of the vote on eaeh apportionment bill or any
proposed amendment to it on Ehe floor of the House or the Senate in
L966 and in L967.

- g-. CoPies of all staff recourmendations, guidelines, instructions,or background information given to the members of tfre legislature orthe relevant gsrrmilgsss concerning the_ L966 apportionmenE and concerningthe L967 adoption of the constirutional proviiions.
h. Copies of any statements submitted to the relevant corrmittees

by members of the public in Lg66 or L967.

i Copies of any memos between a member or members of thelegislature and Alex Brock or the Board of Elections concerning thel?69 appoltionment or concerning the adoption of the relevant iro-visions of the North Carolina Constitution in L967.

of L967
minutes
tionment

ol apportionment of the General Assembly and copies of theof thaE research comrission in so far a! they ctncern appor-of the General Assembly.

F. Any memorandum or report of members of the legislative staff
o-r other employees of the State government to a member 5r members ofthe leg_islature written in 1965,-L966, or L967, concerning the iupactof the Voring Rights Acr.

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