Opinion
No. 23-40582
11-28-2023
Honorable Terry PETTEWAY; Honorable Derrick Rose; Honorable Penny Pope, Plaintiffs—Appellees, v. GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS; Mark Henry, in his official capacity as Galveston County Judge; Dwight D. Sullivan, in his official capacity as Galveston County Clerk, Defendants—Appellants, United States of America, Plaintiff—Appellee, v. Galveston County, Texas; Galveston County Commissioners Court; Mark Henry, in his official capacity as Galveston County Judge, Defendants—Appellants, Dickinson Bay Area Branch NAACP; Galveston Branch NAACP; Mainland Branch NAACP; Galveston Lulac Council 151; Edna Courville; Joe A. Compian; Leon Phillips, Plaintiffs—Appellees, v. Galveston County, Texas; Mark Henry, in his official capacity as Galveston County Judge; Dwight D. Sullivan, in his official capacity as Galveston County Clerk, Defendants—Appellants.
Chad Wilson Dunn, Esq., Brazil & Dunn, Austin, TX, Mark P. Gaber, Alexandra Copper, Simone Tyler Leeper, Valencia Richardson, Campaign Legal Center, Washington, DC, Neil G. Baron, League City, TX, Bernadette Reyes, UCLA Voting Rights Project, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Honorable Terry Petteway, Honorable Derrick Rose, Honorable Penny Pope. Matthew Nicholas Drecun, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, Bruce I. Gear, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Daniel David Hu, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Houston, TX, Nicolas Riley, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee United States of America. Hilary Harris Klein, Adrianne Spoto, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC, Richard Mancino, Aaron E. Nathan, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Mimi Murray Digby Marziani, Texas Civil Rights Project, Austin, TX, Hani Mirza, Texas Civil Rights Project, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Dickinson Bay Area Branch NAACP, Galveston Branch NAACP, Mainland Branch NAACP, Galveston LULAC Council 151. Hilary Harris Klein, Adrianne Spoto, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC, Sarah Xiyi Chen, Texas Civil Rights Project, Austin, TX, Richard Mancino, Aaron E. Nathan, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Edna Courville, Joe A. Compian, Leon Phillips. Joseph R. Russo, Jr., Jordan Raschke Elton, Greer, Herz & Adams, L.L.P., Galveston, TX, Joseph M. Nixon, Public Interest Legal Foundation, Incorporated, Alexandria, VA, Angela K. Olalde, Greer, Herz & Adams, L.L.P., League City, TX, for Defendants-Appellants. T. Russell Nobile, Judicial Watch, Incorporated, Gulfport, MS, for Amicus Curiae Judicial Watch, Incorporated. Pooja Chaudhuri, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, USDC No. 3:22-CV-57, USDC No. 3:22-CV-93, USDC No. 3:22-CV-117, Jeffrey Vincent Brown, U.S. District Judge ON PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC (Opinion November 10, 2023, 5 Cir., 2023, 86 F.4th 214) Chad Wilson Dunn, Esq., Brazil & Dunn, Austin, TX, Mark P. Gaber, Alexandra Copper, Simone Tyler Leeper, Valencia Richardson, Campaign Legal Center, Washington, DC, Neil G. Baron, League City, TX, Bernadette Reyes, UCLA Voting Rights Project, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Honorable Terry Petteway, Honorable Derrick Rose, Honorable Penny Pope. Matthew Nicholas Drecun, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, Bruce I. Gear, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Daniel David Hu, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Houston, TX, Nicolas Riley, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee United States of America. Hilary Harris Klein, Adrianne Spoto, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC, Richard Mancino, Aaron E. Nathan, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Mimi Murray Digby Marziani, Texas Civil Rights Project, Austin, TX, Hani Mirza, Texas Civil Rights Project, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Dickinson Bay Area Branch NAACP, Galveston Branch NAACP, Mainland Branch NAACP, Galveston LULAC Council 151. Hilary Harris Klein, Adrianne Spoto, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC, Sarah Xiyi Chen, Texas Civil Rights Project, Austin, TX, Richard Mancino, Aaron E. Nathan, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Edna Courville, Joe A. Compian, Leon Phillips. Joseph R. Russo, Jr., Jordan Raschke Elton, Greer, Herz & Adams, L.L.P., Galveston, TX, Joseph M. Nixon, Public Interest Legal Foundation, Incorporated, Alexandria, VA, Angela K. Olalde, Greer, Herz & Adams, L.L.P., League City, TX, for Defendants-Appellants. T. Russell Nobile, Judicial Watch, Incorporated, Gulfport, MS, for Amicus Curiae Judicial Watch, Incorporated. Pooja Chaudhuri, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Before Richman, Chief Judge, and Jones, Smith, Stewart, Elrod, Southwick, Haynes, Graves, Higginson, Willett, Ho, Duncan, Engelhardt, Oldham, Wilson, and DOUGLAS, Circuit Judges. Per Curiam:
A majority of the circuit judges in regular active service and not disqualified having voted in favor, on the Court's own motion, to rehear this case en banc,
IT IS ORDERED that this cause shall be reheard by the court en banc with oral argument on a date hereafter to be fixed. The Clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the filing of supplemental briefs. Pursuant to 5th Circuit Rule 41.3, the panel opinion in this case dated November 10, 2023, is VACATED.