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WRIGHT v. ROCKEFELLER

No. 96.

376 U.S. 52 (1964)

WRIGHT ET AL. v. ROCKEFELLER, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 17, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Justin N. Feldman argued the cause for appellants. with him on the briefs were Jerome T. Orans and Elsie M. Quinlan.

Irving Galt, Assistant Solicitor General of New York, and Jawn A. Sandifer argued the cause for appellees. With Mr. Galt on the brief for appellees Rockefeller et al. were Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General of New York, Sheldon Raab, Assistant Attorney General, and Barry Mahoney, Deputy Assistant Attorney General. Mr. Sandifer also filed a brief for appellees Powell et al.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellants, citizens and registered voters of New York's Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congressional Districts, all in New York County (the Island of Manhattan), brought this action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York challenging the constitutionality of that part of Chapter 980 of New York's 1961 congressional apportionment statute which defined these...

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