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MATTER OF SCHNEIDER v. ROCKEFELLER

31 N.Y.2d 420 (1972)

In the Matter of Lydia T. Schneider, Appellant, v. Nelson A. Rockefeller et al., Respondents. In the Matter of Michael W. Schwartz, Appellant, v. Nelson A. Rockefeller et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 28, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Hulbert, Peter M. Frank, Robert J. Levinsohn and Michael W. Schwartz, in person, for Michael W. Schwartz, appellant.

Edward J. Hart for Lydia T. Schneider, appellant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (George D. Zuckerman of counsel), pro se, and for Nelson A. Rockefeller et al., respondents; Donald Zimmerman for Earl W. Brydges, respondent, and Charles S. Webb for Perry B. Duryea, Jr., respondent.

C. Daniel Chill for Stanley Steingut and Joseph Zaretzki, amici curiae.

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

JASEN, J.

This is a consolidated proceeding to review chapter 11 of the Laws of 1972 which redistricted and reapportioned the State Legislature. (N. Y. Const., art. III, § 5; L. 1911, ch. 773, § 1.) The principal issues juxtapose the Federal constitutional requirement that State legislative districts be substantially equal in population (U. S. Const., 14th Amdt., § 1; Reynolds v. Sims, ...

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