Opinion ID: 2335528
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: weddington, congressman delay, art, and babb

Text: Weddington, Congressman DeLay, ART, and Babb argue that the trial court violated their due course of law rights by adopting Plan 1089C in its final judgment without affording the parties notice and an opportunity to comment on that plan, review its statistics, or provide it to their experts for study. Relying on this Court's decision in Terrazas v. Ramirez, 829 S.W.2d 712 (Tex.1991), they contend that a trial court cannot adopt a redistricting plan without hearing evidence on the plan and affording interested parties a forum in which to test the plan. Moreover, Weddington, Congressman DeLay, ART, and Babb assert that there is no evidence to support the trial court's findings of facts and conclusions of law about Plan 1089C. They argue that in contrast to the more than nine redistricting plans the parties proposed during the bench trialalong with expert testimony to support and criticize each proposed planPlan 1089C was never introduced or subjected to expert scrutiny at trial. Finally, Weddington, Congressman DeLay, ART, and Babb contend that Plan 1089C is motivated by improper criteria because it is an incumbent protection plan. Moreover, they argue that Plan 1089C violates the Voting Rights Act by not protecting minority voters.