11th-Hour Effort by Helms Seeks Control of Campaign; Gantt Largely Succeeds in Defining Debate

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October 29, 1990

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11th-Hour Effort by Helms Seeks Control of Campaign; Gantt Largely Succeeds in Defining Debate preview

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  • Case Files, Chisom Hardbacks. Correspondence from Berman to Pugh and Reed, 1989. 93e9ee6c-f311-ef11-9f89-0022482f7547. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/491463ed-e7f5-4afe-9eff-00c02b8530bd/correspondence-from-berman-to-pugh-and-reed. Accessed April 08, 2025.

    U.S. Departed of Justice 

Civil Rights Division 

RSB:bjg 
DJ 166-32-63 

BY OVERNIGHT MAIL 

Mr. Robert G. Pugh 
Pugh and Pugh 
Suite 2100 
333 Texas St. 
Shreveport, Louisiana 71101 

Ms. Judith Reed 
Legal Defense Fund 
99 Hudson Street 
16th Floor 
New York, New York 10013 

Voting Section 

P.O. Box 66128 

Washington, D.C. 20035-6128 

FEB 3 1989 

Re: Chisom & United States v. Roemer 
Civil Action No. 86-4075 (Section A)(E.D. La.)  

Dear Counsel: 

This will confirm our telephone conversations regarding the 
scheduling of depositions in the above-referenced case. We 
agreed that the depositions of the expert witnesses will commence 
on February 27, 1989, and will be conducted pursuant to the 
following schedule: 

February 27, 1989 

9.:00 a.m. 
2:00 p.m. 

February 8,, 1989 

9:00 a.m. 
2:00 p.m. 

Dr. Bernard Grofman 
Dr. Richard Engstrom 

Dr. Raphael Cassimere 
Silas Lee 



March 1, 1989 

9:00 a.m. 

March 2, 1989 

9:00 a.m. 

Dr. Robert Miller 

Dr. Ronald Weber 

We also agreed to schedule any other depositions for 4:00 
p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, on March 1 and 2, 1989, 
and all day on March 3, 1989. If any depositions remain to be 
taken, they will be conducted from March 4 through March 7, 
1989. 

Robert S. Berman 
Attorney, Voting Section 

cc: Counsel of record

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