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MEMORANDUM OPINION ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, United States District Judge This motion for appellate attorney’s fees comes at the end of long and complex litigation under the Voting Rights Act. As Texas appealed the decision of a three-judge court in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia that

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) STATE OF TEXAS, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. )

OPINION ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, United States District Judge This matter presents a case study in how not to respond to a motion for attorney fees and costs. At issue is whether defendant-intervenors, who prevailed in Voting Rights Act litigation before a three judge panel, may recoup attorney fees and costs even though the Supreme Court vacated that opinion in l

MEMORANDUM OPINION GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge: Table of Contents I. Background.............................................................138 II. Principles of Section 5 Analysis...........................................139 A.Retrogression.......................................................139 1. Texas’s Burden of Proof.......

MEMORANDUM OPINION ON PRIVILEGE CLAIMS ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, District Judge. The State of Texas seeks preclearance of its redistricting plans for the U.S. House of Representatives, State House of Representatives, and State Senate, pursuant to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended (“VRA”), 42 U.S.C. § 1973 et seq.

MEMORANDUM OPINION COLLYER, District Judge. In the summer of 2011, the Texas legislature redrew the boundaries for voting districts in the State to account for the report of the 2010 Census that its population had grown in the last decade by more than four million people, about two-thirds of whom are Hispanic. As required by Section 5 of the Voting Right

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) STATE OF TEXAS, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 11-1303 ) (RMC-TB

866 F.2d 1546 STATE OF TEXAS, Petitioner,v.UNITED STATES of America, and Interstate CommerceCommission, Respondents. No. 87-4725. United States Court of Appeals,Fifth Circuit. March 6, 1989. Robert Ozer, Anne Swenson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Gen. Litigation, State & County Affairs Div., Austin, Tex., for pe

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge: The Interstate Commerce Commission seeks a preliminary injunction to stay certain proceedings in a Texas state court. According to the Commission, the state proceeding concerns claims identical to those pending before this court in an appeal from a declaratory ruling made by the Commission. Convinced that the state court proceeding poses n

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MILLETT. MILLETT, Circuit Judge: The State of Texas appeals the district court’s award of attorneys’ fees to three intervenors in Texas’s lawsuit under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10304. Rather than file a memorandum of points and authorities opposing the three separate motions for attorney

*1146 ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge: Having fully considered the application for rehearing en banc filed jointly by Interstate Commerce Commission and the United States, the court withdraws Part IV of its prior opinion, reported at 730 F.2d 409 (5th Cir.1

OPINION REGARDING MOTION TO INTERVENE ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, United States District Judge Alleging misconduct in home mortgage practices, the United States and numerous *117 State attorneys general sued major mortgagees including Citigroup, Ine.; Citibank, N.A.; and CitiMortgage,

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge: The State of Texas challenges the ICC requirement that it approve a tariff for intrastate contract carriage of wheat by rail that does not disclose the rate to be charged. Texas contends that the rate is an essential term of the contract and that disclosure of such an essential term is required by stat

TATE, Circuit Judge: The State Of Texas (“Texas”) seeks review of an order issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission (“the Commission”) pursuant to Section 16 of the Bus Regulatory Reform Act of 1982, 49 U^.C. § 10935 (“the Bus Act”), granting Greyhound Lines, Inc. (“Greyhound”) permission to discontinue bus service over certain

*89 ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge. The State of Texas and Tex-Iron, Inc., as intervenor, contend that the Interstate Commerce Commission failed to evaluate properly public convenience and necessity in permitting Southern Pacific (SP) to abandon that part of i

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge: We withdraw our prior opinion of March 13, 2018, City of El Cenizo v. Texas , 885 F.3d 332 (5th Cir. 2018), and substitute the following, the purpose of which is to eliminate reference to United States v

Fourth Court of Appeals San Antonio, Texas April 7, 2016 No. 04-15-00810-CV CURRENT MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA $20,438.00, et al., Appellants v. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee From the 229th Jud

Reed O'Connor, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE *668On December 14, 2018, the Court entered its Order granting partial summary judgment on Count I of the Plaintiffs' Amended Complaint. See ECF No. 211. On December 16, 2018, the Court ordered the Parties to meet and confer and, by January 4, 2019, to jointly propose a schedule for resolvi

Andrew S. Hanen, United States District Court Judge Eight states and two governors1 are seeking declaratory and injunctive relief and ask this Court to hold that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ("DACA") program is illegal because its creation and continued existence violate the procedural and substantive aspects of the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA").

EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge: This case arises out of student transfers from one rural Texas school district to another. Before and after the transfers, both districts had a majority of racial minority students. 1 The United States and Hearne ISD, the Plaintiff district, contend that the transfers impermissibly impeded d