Correspondence from Quigley to Guinier

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LDF Attorney
- Lani Guinier
Matter
- Major v. Treen
Case
- Major v. Treen
U.S. state
- Louisiana
Collection
- Case Files
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    LAW OFFICES OF 

QUIGLEY & SCHECKMAN 
631 ST. CHARLES AVENUE 

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130 

TELEPHONE: 504-524-0016 

WILLIAM P. QUIGLEY IN ASSOCIATION WITH: 
STEVEN SCHECKMAN R. JAMES KELLOGG 

MARK S. GOLDSTEIN 

RONALD J. PURSELL 

June 24, 1982 

Napoleon B. Williams 

Lani Guinier 

NAACP Legal Defense & Education 

Fund, Inc. 

10 Columbus Circle, Suite 2030 

New York, New York 10019 

Re: Major v. Treen (Congressional) 
  

Dear Napoleon and Lani: 

Please find enclosed a Memorandum concerning the Status Conference held 

yesterday in the above captioned matter. You should also know that we 

have set dates for qualifications, etc., in the event that the Three Judge 

Court throws out the Congressional Plan after trial during the week of 

August 2. These alternate dates would be qualifications from August 23-27, 

objections from August 28-September 6, absentee balloting from September 13- 

25, with the primary on October 2. 

As you can tell from the Memorandum, we have a brief’ due on July 12 concerning 

the Voting Rights Act Extension, applicability, its constitutionality, and its 

standards, as well as the legislative history of the Act. I hope that your 

office will be able to do most of the work on that brief, inasmuch as you 

have been intimately involved in the legislative process, and have better 

access to the resource materials than we do. 

We also have to move for certification of the class before trial: do you have 

a brief in a similar case on this subject? My feeling is the State is not 

really going to oppose on certification of the class, but I still want to 

submit a good brief on the issues. It seems to me that the brief on class 

certification will be a useful tool to educate the Judges a bit on the Voting 

Rights Act and the issues which will arise at trial. 

We need to talk over these recent developments at your earliest opportunity, 

so that we can divide the labor and coordinate our efforts. I'm working on

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