Correspondence from Lani Guinier to Robert D. St. Vrain (Clerk) Re: Smith v. City of Pine Bluff

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- Leslie J. Winner
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- NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc.
Matter
- Gingles
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- Thornburg v. Gingles
U.S. state
- North Carolina
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- Case Files
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- e2916f49-de92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873

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Legal Department General, Lani Guinier Correspondence. Correspondence from Lani Guinier to Robert D. St. Vrain (Clerk) Re: Smith v. City of Pine Bluff, 1986. 7c6d55e8-e992-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/138d266e-fc6e-42d0-b611-f088fe1c38a8/correspondence-from-lani-guinier-to-robert-d-st-vrain-clerk-re-smith-v-city-of-pine-bluff. Accessed July 30, 2025.

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    April I0, 1986

Mr. Robert D. St. Vrain, Clerk
United States Court of Appeals

for the Eighth Circuit
511 United States Courthouse
1114 ltlarket Street
St. Louis, Missouri 63101

REi Robert J. Smith, et aI. v. City of Pine Bluff ,

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Dear Mr. St. Vrain:

I represent appellants Robert J. Smith, €t d1., in the
above-mentioned appeal pending in the 8th Circuit. On
Ivlarch 4, 1986, appellants f iled with their brief a Ivlotion
to Vacate Order, to Remand and for Other Immediate Relief.
The lvlotion is based on an undisputed factual development
which occurred after the filing of the Notice of Appeal
and which implicates appellantsr right to vote in elec-
tions scheduled for l"lay of this year, less than two months
from now.

Appellees' Brief and Response to Appellants' Ivlotion for. . .
Immediate Relief have now been filed. In order to expedite
consideration by the Court of the pending appeal, and par-
ticularly the Motj-on for...Immediate Relief, appellants
hereby waive the filing of a Reply Brief.

Z",W
C. Lani Guinier
Attorney for Appellants

cLG/ r

cc: P. A. Hollingwroth, Esq.
Robert J. Tolson, Esg.

NINETY NINE HUDSON STREET (212) 219-1 900 NEW YORK, N.Y. 10013

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Correspondence from Buchanan to Guinier

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