Correspondence from Reed to Ganucheau; from Reed to Judges Politz, Clark, and Garza

Public Court Documents
July 26, 1988

Cite this item

Correspondence from Reed to Ganucheau; from Reed to Judges Politz, Clark, and Garza preview

Document text

The following text has been generated automatically during the document scanning process. It may contain errors, omissions, or incorrect formatting. Please refer to the PDF document if this text is not usable.

Download

By downloading, publishing, or reusing the Materials outside of the Website, you hereby confirm and attest that you have read and agree to the LDF Archival Collection Terms of Use linked below. We draw your attention to the following:

For those Materials owned by LDF, your use of the Material outside the Site is solely for one or more of the following (the “Permitted Purposes”):

Non-commercial research and private study;
Teaching, scholarship and instruction (including distance learning);
Non-commercial print and non-commercial online use;
Criticism, comment or news reporting; or
For people with visual disabilities (See Section 121 of the Copyright Act).
For those Materials not owned by LDF you understand that:
- It is your responsibility to determine whether the way you plan to use the materials falls within the copyright exception of Fair Use.
- For any use outside of Fair Use, it is your responsibility to seek and obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders.

LDF hereby grants you the right to use LDF owned Materials for the Permitted Purposes without seeking further permission from LDF.

If you publish or redistribute any Materials (including excerpts and quotes), you must include a credit line and/or proper citation to the source of the Material. However, you may not use the name of LDF in any manner which creates any false association between you and LDF or that incorrectly implies any sponsorship or endorsement of you by LDF.

NOTICE: Uses that do not comply with these Terms or that do not fall under Fair Use (or another exception) may make you liable for copyright infringement.

Read the full LDF Archival Collection Terms of Use Here.

I agree to the terms and conditions for use of this content.

If you would like to use this content in other ways, contact us at

LDF Attorneys
Organization
- NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc.
Matter
- Chishom v. Edwards (Chisom v. Roemer) (Perschall v. State of Louisiana)
Case
- Chisom v. Roemer
U.S. state
- Louisiana
Collection
- Case Files
Taxonomy
Identifier
- 87967509-f311-ef11-9f89-6045bda844fd

Cite this item

Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Working Files - Guinier. Attorney Notes 1695-1696, 1982. 435f5908-e192-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/23dd5518-92c1-4d70-851f-808eba2ca7d5/attorney-notes-1695-1696. Accessed April 06, 2025.

Copied!

    t6#
9,n' .'F"""rrry* j1riffi ;gi'ffi"##ii$F"fity;lifi+:t-:#i

tional representaiiof,' *6" se6m to u"to"'e' as. I read this' that a

ili'"':firi,i[i"i"iies"'iiilra?q.ii"" ti,Lt 
?rii"Ify;ili',if;8:"::3'ftti:t;;"i;;-;nt, uiless it can be.shown

illH#i;;ili" byfit;;ffi;i'-ti'"'L ""vt4i#.TJg#lise 
report

;; ;, casi that would cause You to re
Mr. RrvNo-.. 1"fri"-i. tf," "rro"t" t"po"t goes s1s,se3!^that there

ir"ii"t,ro."*"-pi;;bd;;*-"bi*'fl"rfrir':,#i,e*['ffi#fifi[^*i'r"i""iriion tttat w6uld suggest tht
"eifects" test.-iii".t"t l,plnv. That by.itself would?

Mr. RuYror,m. That iE riSht'

1696

Senator Lnlnv' \lhere do-you re.ad that in the House report be

""il;i';; 
nJ nna that conclusion in there?

Mr. RsyNo-.. ' 'ir'i"i";I; ii-i;yi i" tt","r" is a corelation be

tween the at-large "i*iio"t t"d drsproportiot'"t representatiol ?l
lJ'i]#iiili 

-fr,;f ir ."-"iir-i"g tt ri'this particular amendment rs

u3"T;*rt"l"fil.'"o, do not thin-k rhat the hearings conducred b1'

Senator Harch,naiio.-"'ir-t-fi" Houlq -rt" it crystal clear that

F,n1"fi :1,s,l;*r;i::Hr.t,fl 'ffi}f }*l#,ixrz:l't'i:
"'#:ul::iror^os, senator, those cases are fullv consistent with mv

restimony a'd *'ith"il]';;;;;;"d d;-;6t at all suggest the

kind of test that *;;id #fi;i;;-""a"i ihe amendment to the

,"r:T"f:'r' 
,EAH'. Do you think-it ls your position rhen that rhe

House report *o,rri"riJ't#i^;h" 
-irir-il,i"a&i judge would read a

requiremenl ro. p.'ofiiJiiii-ili.*i"Gli;" oi thl Voting Rights

ofif f,:lffSlT;1"1*r:;,;**a what my statement was and

I did not get it.
^ H"utot'L*sv. What is your statement--

fi';:H;;"-;fi. I ;;;6uie what vou are referring to'

senator Lury. ffi"'G "iiJ 
tl"l,i"s[ion or wheth6r a judse \ riu

require proportional representatlon' . -
Mr. RnvNorr.. i'd#i;XT-Liiir'"a' that' a judge. under this

standard could weli Jiiil"Iir vqq ld'C! atJar[e tvt9p- and un-

derrepresentation, iffii ;#i Y';"le u" 
"-"rrrci"t't 

ti ttlo afoul of the

"resuits" test under section 2 
"s "'gge"ted 

by -the Hou99 and that

tr,!"r?i"sr.s9i"tl;;;;l-*nt""""-t-t'":?fi 
"ti:il'#f,i"HT#%;;;";;?;; in and of itself will not be

Uasis to avoid that reau!'o r r -.

Copyright notice

This collection and the tools to navigate it (the “Collection”) are available to the public for general educational and research purposes, as well as to preserve and contextualize the history of the content and materials it contains (the “Materials”). Like other archival collections, such as those found in libraries, LDF owns the physical source Materials that have been digitized for the Collection; however, LDF does not own the underlying copyright or other rights in all items and there are limits on how you can use the Materials. By accessing and using the Material, you acknowledge your agreement to the Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Materials.

Additional info

To the extent that LDF includes information about the Materials’ origins or ownership or provides summaries or transcripts of original source Materials, LDF does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of such information, transcripts or summaries, and shall not be responsible for any inaccuracies.

Correspondence from Reed to Ganucheau; from Reed to Judges Politz, Clark, and Garza

LDF Attorneys

Organization

Matter

Case

U.S. state

Collection

Taxonomy

Identifier

Cite this item

Copyright notice

Additional info

You may also be interested in