Fairley v. Patterson

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1974-05-01

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TUTTLE, Circuit Judge: This appeal is the consolidation of two suits from the district court, the first involving reapportionment and the second a request for attorneys’ fees and expenses in the first. The reapportionment suit is brought under the fourteenth and twenty-sixth amendments to the United States Constitution challenging the district court’s approval of the exclusion by county officials of a “class” of college stud…

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