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  • Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Working Files - Guinier. Order, 1986. 1c7287bc-e192-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/e7ef70ed-52f5-4234-9525-45977ab84515/order. Accessed May 22, 2025.

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    IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA

RALEIGH DIVISION

JUt{ I8S
J. RICH LEONARD, CLERK

No. 8r-Bo r,,.[Effiiit: 3lH*
ORDER

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RATPB GINGLES, €t aI.,

Plaintiffs

vs.

RUFUS EDII{ISTEN, €t dI.,

Defendants

By order dated December 5, L985, this court granted plaintiffs'
motion for an order establishing a pernanent method of election

to the North Carolina House of Representatives in House Districts
8, 70, 7L and 72 which are situated in Wilson, Edgecombe and Nash

Counties and enjoined the defendants to continue to use those

election districts as outlined in the courtrs October 30, 1984

order in connection with all elections to be held in those counties

pending the appeal of this action. Plaintiff-intervenors have

now filed a motion requesting the court to modify the Decenber

5 order by eliminating the "pending appeal" qualification with

respect to those districts and by also ordering a permanent method

of election in North Carolina Senate District 2.L As grounds

for this motion, plaintiff-intervenors assert that none of these

districts are involved in the appeal presently pending in the

Supreme Court, and that permanent relief is therefore appropriate.

1. Senate District 2 is composed of Northampton
and Hertford Counties and Portions of Gates, Bertie,
ltartin, Edgecombe, Halifax, Vance and Warren Counties.
N.C.c.S. S 120-1 (a) .



In response, the defendants state that they do not oppose the

motionr so long as any order on permanent relief takes into account

the fact that reapportionnent may be necessary following the 1990

census.

Accordingly, it is hereby

ORDERED that the defendants are permanently

enjoined to use the House and Senate election districts discussed

herein subject to reapportionment following the 1990 eensus.

UNITED STATES

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COU

Itlay 30, 1986.

l-certify the foregoing to be e tnre

and correct coPY ol 16s 6riginal'

J. Rich Leonard, Clerk

United States Dlstrici ictrt
Eastern Drstrict d Nor$r Garolina

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F. T. DUPREE,
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