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From The Associated Press, 7/12/03:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/12/national/12TEXA.html

Texas Search for Democrats Is Ruled Illegal
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


FORT WORTH --

The Texas Department of Public Safety lacks the legal authority to
track down and arrest rebellious state lawmakers who block a quorum, a
judge has ruled.

Visiting Judge Charles Campbell of State District Court in Austin made
the ruling on Thursday in a lawsuit filed last month by State
Representative Lon Burnam of Fort Worth, one of 51 Democrats in the
Texas House who fled to Oklahoma for four days in May to prevent a
vote on a Republican-backed Congressional redistricting plan.

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