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COX v. KATZ

22 N.Y.2d 903 (1968)

Margaret Cox et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Other Citizen-Electors of the City of New York, Appellants, v. Herman Katz, as City Clerk of the City of New York, et al., Respondents, and Louis J. Lefkowitz, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, Intervenor-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 4, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton H. Friedman and Marshall Perlin for appellants.

J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel (Robert E. Hugh of counsel), for respondents.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Philip Weinberg, Samuel A. Hirshowitz and George D. Zuckerman of counsel), intervenor-respondent.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, KEATING, BREITEL and JASEN concur.

Per Curiam.

We agree with the decision of the Appellate Division and concur with the views expressed in its opinion. We would simply add a few lines to point up the federal questions urged upon us by the plaintiffs.

There is no basis for the application of the "one man-one vote" principle to the present case. That doctrine, designed to assure representative government in a democracy such as ours, was never...

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