BLAIKIE v. WAGNER

No. 65 Civ. 1214, 65 Civ. 1533.

258 F.Supp. 364 (1965)

Robert B. BLAIKIE, Plaintiff, v. Robert F. WAGNER, Mayor of the City of New York, et al., Defendants. Timothy W. COSTELLO, individually and as State Chairman of the Liberal Party of New York State et al., Plaintiffs, v. Nelson A. ROCKEFELLER, as Governor of the State of New York, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

October 14, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore M. Wolkof, New York City, for plaintiff Robert B. Blaikie.

Michael J. Dontzin, Levine & Dontzin, New York City, for plaintiffs Costello et al.

Daniel M. Cohen, New York City, Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of State of New York, New York City, for defendants Lomenzo, Rockefeller and Lomenzo.

John L. Radlein, New York City, Leo A. Larkin, Corporation Counsel of City of New York, New York City, for defendants Boyers, Modringo, Ruggieri, Lindsay, Connor, O'Dwyer, Farrell, Ribustello, Katz, Wagner, Screvane, Beame, Cariello, Maniscalco, Motley, Periconi, Stark, Power, Mallee, O'Rourke and Crews.

John W. Castles, 3d, New York City (Lord, Day & Lord, Genevieve L. Fraiman and Muriel Bell, New York City, on the brief), for defendants Robert S. Aldrich and Harry F. Donnelly.

Before MOORE, Circuit Judge, and WYATT and TENNEY, District Judges.


MOORE, Circuit Judge.

The Blaikie Suit

Plaintiff, Robert B. Blaikie, as a registered voter in the 16th election district of the 7th assembly district of New York County, sues the Mayor, the President and Clerk of the City Council of New York, the ten Councilmen-at-Large for the boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Manhattan and the Bronx (the areas of the boroughs are co-terminous with the counties of Queens, Kings, Richmond, New York and...

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