EBENHART v. POWER

No. 68 Civ. 5002.

309 F.Supp. 660 (1969)

Rita EBENHART and Cecily Coddington, and on behalf of all other persons in the 1st Judicial District of the State of New York, who voted or who were qualified to vote in the election of November 5, 1968 for the position of Supreme Court Judge, Plaintiffs, v. James M. POWER et al., Commissioners of the Board of Elections and each Commissioner, individually; each and every delegate to the Judicial Convention of the Democratic, Republican, Liberal and Conservative Parties held for nomination of Supreme Court judges for the 1st Judicial District of the State of New York for the election of November 5, 1968, Arnold Guy Fraiman and every other nominee for Supreme Court judge, nominated by all four of the aforementioned parties and those nominated by all but the Conservative Party, and each and every person, who having knowledge of the conspiracy and who took part or failed to prevent having the power to do so, the conspiracy, which resulted in the disenfranchisement of the plaintiffs with regard to the election held on November 5, 1968 for the office of Supreme Court judge in the said Judicial District, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

November 20, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Hanft, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., State of New York, New York City, Irving L. Rollins, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel, J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel, City of New York, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM

TENNEY, District Judge.

By order of Judge Frankel of this court, plaintiffs have been authorized, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a), to commence a civil action in this court without prepayment of costs and fees or the necessity of giving security therefor. Plaintiffs now move this Court for a "supplementing" order, "providing that the cost of taking, transcribing and making copies of depositions taken on behalf of the plaintiffs be paid by...

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