ROCKEFELLER v. WELLS

No. 691.

389 U.S. 421 (1967)

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

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 18, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General of New York, Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Assistant Attorney General, and George D. Zuckerman, Assistant Attorney General, for appellants.

Isidore Levine for appellees.


PER CURIAM.

The motion to affirm is granted and the judgment is affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, dissenting.

This action was brought by appellees under the Civil Rights Act. 42 U. S. C. §§ 1983, 1988, for declaratory and other relief. Their complaint alleged that New York's congressional districting statute does not conform to the requirements of Art. I, § 2, of the United States Constitution, as those requirements are defined in Wesberry...

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