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BIANCHI v. GRIFFING

No. 325, Docket 31652.

393 F.2d 457 (1968)

I. William BIANCHI, Jr., Quentin B. Sammis and The Town of Huntington, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Evans K. GRIFFING, William P. Bain, Lester M. Albertson, William J. Leonard, Stephen F. Meschutt, Ralph J. Osgood, Charles R. Dominy, Robert J. Flynn, Arthur M. Cromarty and Thomas J. Harwood, constituting the Board of Supervisors of Suffolk County, New York, Defendants-Appellees, and Town of East Hampton, Town of Riverhead, Town of Shelter Island, Town of Southampton and Town of Southold, Intervenors-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided April 5, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Cahn, Huntington, N. Y., for plaintiffs-appellants Sammis and the Town of Huntington.

Frederic Block, Centereach, N. Y., for plaintiff-appellant Bianchi.

Stanley S. Corwin, Asst. County Atty., Suffolk County, N. Y. (George W. Percy, Jr., County Atty., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Howard M. Finklestein, Riverhead, N. Y. (Reginald C. Smith, Pierre G. Lundberg, Riverhead, N. Y., of counsel), for intervenors-defendants-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN and HAYS, Circuit Judges, and RYAN, District Judge.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents a problem that has received increasing attention since the landmark decision in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 84 S.Ct. 1362, 12 L. Ed.2d 506 (1964) — the applicability of the developing body of reapportionment law to units of local government.

I.

The Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, in accordance with a system of representation whose origins are more...

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