MATTER OF GREEN


54 Misc.2d 606 (1967)

In the Matter of Earl Green.

Civil Court of the City of New York, New York County.

September 22, 1967


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard S. Greenbaum for petitioner.


MAURICE WAHL, J.

Petitioner is an American-born citizen over 27 years of age and is employed in a nursing home in the City of New York. He seeks not only to disavow the faith and tenets of his church and his forebears but also his patronymic. Hence he now applies for judicial approval for the renunciation of his natal appellation, Earl Green, pursuant to section 60 et seq. of the Civil Rights Law, and desires to be known as Merwon Abdul Salaam...

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