COOPER v. POWER

No. 66-Civil-594.

282 F.Supp. 548 (1968)

Andrew COOPER, Joan C. Bacchus and Paul S. Kerrigan, Plaintiffs, v. James M. POWER et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. New York.

March 21, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton H. Friedman, New York City (Friedman & Perlin, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

George D. Zuckerman, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of State of New York, Albany, N. Y., of counsel), for defendants Rockefeller and another.

Norman Redlich, New York City (J. Lee Rankin, Corp. Counsel of the City of New York, and Edward L. Johnson, New York City, of counsel), for defendant Board of Elections of the City of New York.

George R. Ruditz, New York City (A. Sheinberg, New York City, of counsel), for defendant E. Celler.

J. Slavin, New York City, for defendant Brasco.

Robert L. Carter and Joan Franklin, New York City, for the National Association of Colored People as amicus curiae.

Before MOORE, Circuit Judge, ZAVATT, Chief Judge, and DOOLING, District Judge.


MOORE, Circuit Judge.

Subsequent to the affirmance by the Supreme Court of Wells v. Rockefeller, 273 F.Supp. 984 (S.D.N.Y.), affirmed per curiam, 389 U.S. 421, 88 S.Ct. 578, 19 L.Ed.2d 651 (December 18, 1967), the Legislature has repealed the State law whereunder congressional districts previously had been established, and enacted a new law (S.3980; A.5780) whereby new congressional districts are...

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