Fax from Markham to Smiley RE: response to proposed stipulations
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November 23, 1999
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Case Files, Cromartie Hardbacks. Fax from Markham to Smiley RE: response to proposed stipulations, 1999. 24401f2e-e00e-f011-9989-002248226c06. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/dfb5dc1d-56e6-41ca-b233-517eb5fad246/fax-from-markham-to-smiley-re-response-to-proposed-stipulations. Accessed November 19, 2025.
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EVERETT GASKINS/DURHAM ao = Noy 23.9% 20:47 No .023'P.0l
EveEretT & EVERETT
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW
SUITE 300
R.O. EVERETT (1878-1971) 301 W. MAIN STREET
KATHRINE A. EVERETT (1898-1002) P.O. BOX 586
ROBINSON O, EVERETT TEL: (919) 882-8601
DAWN T. BATTISTE DurHaMm, NorrH Carolina 27702 FAX: (919) 882-5469
SANDRA G. HERRING
November 23, 1999
QF COUNSEL
ROBERT D. HOLLEMAN 8 p.m.
OF COUNBEL
CRAIG M. KABATCHNICK
(ADMITTED N.C., D.C.)
Ms. Tiare Smiley Via Fax to 716-6763
North Carolina Dept. of Justice
P. O. Box 629
Raleigh, NC 27602-0629
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We have received your proposed stipulations about an hour ago. We cannot agree to 5, 7, or 8,
because they are untrue. We cannot agree to 16 or 18 because each is misleading.
Dear Tiare:
We can agree to 1, 2, 3,4, 9, and 19.
With corrections or additions to reflect “context” we can agree to 6, 13, 14, 15, 17.
With wording changes we could agree to 10, 11, 12, and 13.
Here are our proposals:
4 While the 1982 Plan divided four counties and the 1992 Plan divided 44 counties, the 1997
Plan divides 22 counties. Six of these are in the 12" District and 10 are in the First District.
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13. District 12's African-American total population was reduced from 56.63 percent in the 1992
Plan to 46.67% in the 1997 Plan and 35.58% in the 1998 Plan.
j Fa in the 1992 plan to 43.36 percent in the 1997 Plan and 32.56% in the 1998 Plan.
5 . The dispersion compactness score of District 12 was 0.045 in the 1992 Plan and 0.109 in the
1997 Plan, North Carolina’s congressional districts in the 1982 Plan had an average dispersion
score of .36, a low of .26 and a high of .57.
EVERETT GASKINS/DURHAM TEL :919-682-5469 Now. 23799 20:48 No .023P.02
Ms. Tiare Smiley
November 23, 1999
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LN measured by their dispersion and perimeter scores, the levels of compactness for North
Carolina's twelve congressional districts increased in the 1997 Plan as compared to the 1992 Plan,
but remains lower as compared to the 1982 Plan,
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AK CE Douglas E. Markham
ce: Mr. Adam Stein, via fax to 967-4953
Mr, Todd Cox, via fax to 202-682-1312