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- Subject: 90-813 & 90-974 -- DISSENT, HOUSTON LAWYERS' ASSN. v. TEXAS ATTORNEY GEN.
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- SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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- Nos. 90-813 and 90-974
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- HOUSTON LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION, et al.,
- PETITIONERS
- v.
- 90-813
- ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS, et al.
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- LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS, et al., PETITIONERS v. 90-974
- ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS, et al.
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- on writs of certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the fifth
- circuit
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- [June 20, 1991]
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- Justice Scalia, with whom The Chief Justice and Justice Kennedy join,
- dissenting.
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- For the reasons stated in my opinion in Chisom v. Edwards, ante at ---,
- I would not apply MDRV 2 of the Voting Rights Act to vote dilution claims
- in judicial elections, and would therefore affirm the judgment below.
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