State of Texas v. HolderREPLY re NoticeD.D.C.July 5, 2012IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA STATE OF TEXAS, Plaintiff, v. ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States, Defendant. ERIC KENNIE, et al., Defendant-Intervenors, TEXAS STATE CONFERENCE OF NAACP BRANCHES, et al., Defendant-Intervenors, TEXAS LEAGUE OF YOUNG VOTERS EDUCATION FUND, et al., Defendant-Intervenors, TEXAS LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS, et al., Defendant-Intervenors, VICTORIA RODRIGUEZ, et al., Defendant-Intervenors. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) CASE NO. 1:12-CV-00128 (RMC-DST-RLW) Three-Judge Court NOTICE CONCERNING ATTORNEY GENERAL’S DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS IN REPLY TO TEXAS’S COUNTER-DESIGNATIONS According to this Court’s order of June 13, 2012 (ECF No. 183), the Plaintiff State of Texas (the “State”) was ordered to file its deposition designations on June 20, 2012. (ECF No. Case 1:12-cv-00128-RMC-DST-RLW Document 289 Filed 07/05/12 Page 1 of 5 2 218.) The Defendant Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. (“Attorney General”) was ordered to file “deposition counter-designations” on June 25, 2012. (ECF No. 235.) And the State was required to file “any deposition designations in reply to Defendants’ counter-designations” on June 29, 2012. (ECF No. 254.) The State’s June 29, 2012 (ECF No. 254), filing set out, in chart form, the following headings and information: “Defendants’ Designations” (the Attorney General’s Counter- Designations), “Plaintiffs’ Objections,” “Plaintiffs’ Counter-Designations,” “Defendants’ Objections to Counter Designations,” and “Court Ruling.” This chart did not include the State’s deposition designations filed on June 20, 2012 (ECF No. 218), or a heading for the Attorney General’s reply designations. The State’s objections, according to an Objection Key, also appear in places to refer to the Texas Rules of Evidence (T.R.E.). The Attorney General submits two exhibits in reply to the State’s filing and a third containing additional expert designations. Exhibit 1 sets out the Attorney General’s June 25, 2012, counter-designations (ECF No. 235), the State’s evidentiary objections to those counter- designations, and the Attorney General’s opposition to those objections. Exhibit 2 sets out the State’s reply designations (labeled on the State’s chart as “Counter- Designations”), the Attorney General’s objections to the State’s reply designations, and testimony the Attorney General has designated in response to the State’s reply designations, including any additional designations in response to the State’s evidentiary objections. In Exhibit 3, the Attorney General has included designations of the testimony from Randall Buck Wood and Dr. Alan Lichtman, whose depositions were taken on June 29, 2012, and July 2, 2012, respectively. Case 1:12-cv-00128-RMC-DST-RLW Document 289 Filed 07/05/12 Page 2 of 5 3 In its June 29, 2012 (ECF No. 254) filing, the State lodged a general objection to the Attorney General’s designation of portions of testimony from witnesses called live to testify at trial. Texas repeated this objection on July 3, 2012, concerning the designation of expert witness testimony. (ECF No. 281.) These objections have no merit. Given the limits on live testimony at trial, these witnesses will be unable to testify to all of the matters designated. Further, the State itself has designated testimony from witnesses it plans to call live at trial. See, e.g., (ECF No. 218) (designating the testimony of Representative Aaron Pena, Senator Thomas D. Williams, and Major Forrest Mitchell). The Attorney General will provide the Court and counsel with electronic courtesy copies of his designated transcripts on July 6, 2012. Date: July 5, 2012 Respectfully submitted, RONALD C. MACHEN, JR. THOMAS E. PEREZ United States Attorney Assistant Attorney General District of Columbia Civil Rights Division T. CHRISTIAN HERREN, JR. /s/Spencer R. Fisher MEREDITH BELL-PLATTS ELIZABETH S. WESTFALL BRUCE I. GEAR SPENCER R. FISHER JENNIFER L. MARANZANO RISA BERKOWER DANIEL J. FREEMAN Attorneys Voting Section Civil Rights Division U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Telephone: 1-800-253-3931 Email: spencer.fisher@usdoj.gov Case 1:12-cv-00128-RMC-DST-RLW Document 289 Filed 07/05/12 Page 3 of 5 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on July 5, 2012, I served a true and correct copy of the foregoing via the Court’s ECF system on the following counsel of record: Jonathan Franklin Mitchell Adam W. Aston Matthew Hamilton Frederick Patrick Kinney Sweeten Office of the Attorney General of Texas jonathan.mitchell@oag.state.tx.us adam.aston@oag.state.tx.us matthew.frederick@oag.state.tx.us Patrick.sweeten@texasattorneygeneral.gov Counsel for Plaintiff Debo P. Adegbile Leah C. Aden Elise C. Boddie Ryan Haygood Dale E. Ho Natasha Korgaonkar NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund dadegbile@naacpldf.org laden@naacpldf.org eboddie@naacpldf.org rhaygood@naacpldf.org dho@naacpldf.org nkorgaonkar@naacpldf.org Michael Birney de Leeuw Douglas H. Flaum Adam M. Harris Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson douglas.flaum@friedfrank.com adam.harris@friedfrank.com michael.deleeuw@friedfrank.com Counsel for Texas League of Young Voters Intervenors J. Gerald Hebert hebert@voterlaw.com Chad W. Dunn Brazil & Dunn chad@brazilanddunn.com Counsel for Kennie Intervenors Jon M. Greenbaum Mark A. Posner Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights mposner@lawyerscommittee.org jgreenbaum@lawyerscommittee.org Ezra David Rosenberg Michelle Hart Yeary Dechert LLP ezra.rosenberg@dechert.com michelle.yeary@dechert.com Robert Stephen Notzon Robert@notzonlaw.com Gary L. Bledsoe Law Office of Gary L. Bledsoe and Associates garybledsoe@sbcglobal.net Myrna Perez Wendy Robin Weiser Ian Arthur Vandewalker The Brennan Center for Justice myrna.perez@nyu.edu wendy.weiser@nyu.edu ian.vandewalker@nyu.edu Counsel for NAACP Intervenors Case 1:12-cv-00128-RMC-DST-RLW Document 289 Filed 07/05/12 Page 4 of 5 John Tanner john.k.tanner@gmail.com Nancy G. Abudu M. Laughlin McDonald Katie O’Connor Arthur B. Spitzer American Civil Liberties Union nabudu@aclu.org lmcdonald@aclu.org koconnor@aclu.org artspitzer@gmail.com Counsel Texas Legislative Black Caucus Intervenors Nina Perales Amy Pederson Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. nperales@maldef.org apederson@maldef.org Counsel for Rodriguez Intervenors SPENCER R. FISHER /s/Spencer R. Fisher Trial Attorney, Voting Section U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 spencer.fisher@usdoj.gov Case 1:12-cv-00128-RMC-DST-RLW Document 289 Filed 07/05/12 Page 5 of 5