COOPER v. POWER

No. 66 C 594.

260 F.Supp. 207 (1966)

Andrew COOPER et al., Plaintiffs, v. James M. POWER, Thomas Mallee, Maurice J. O'Rourke, and J. J. Duberstein, Commissioners of Election constituting the Board of Elections of the City of New York et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. New York.

August 9, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton H. Friedman, of Friedman & Perlin, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

George Zuckerman, New York City (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., and Barry Mahoney, New York City, of counsel), for defendant officers of New York State and Legislative officials.

J. Lee Rankin, Corp. Counsel of the City of New York, and Gene R. McHam, New York City, for defendant Board of Elections of the City of New York.


DOOLING, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Cooper and Bacchus, Negro enrolled members of the Democratic Party residing in the Tenth and Eleventh Congressional Districts in Brooklyn, and Paul S. Kerrigan, a white enrolled member of the Republican Party residing in the Fourteenth Congressional District in Brooklyn, sue to invalidate New York State's apportionment of Congressional districts. Their charge is that the Tenth through...

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