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PALLA v. SUFFOLK CO. BD. OF ELECTIONS

31 N.Y.2d 36 (1972)

In the Matter of James Palla et al., Appellants, v. Suffolk County Board of Elections et al., Respondents. In the Matter of Susan J. Bell et al., Appellants, v. Ida M. Rossi, as Republican Commissioner of Elections for the County of Oneida, et al., Respondents. In the Matter of Steven Gorenberg et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Appellants, v. Onondaga County Board of Elections et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 7, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burt Neuborne, Bruce J. Ennis and Arthur Eisenberg for appellants in the first and second above-entitled proceedings.

George W. Percy, Jr., County Attorney (Melvyn Tanenbaum of counsel), for respondents in the first above-entitled proceeding.

Raymond M. Durr, County Attorney (James P. O'Rourke of counsel), for respondents in the second above-entitled proceeding.

Richard Brickwedde for appellants in the third above-entitled proceeding.

Eli Gingold, County Attorney (Richard J. Crowley of counsel), for respondents in the third above-entitled proceeding.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (William J. Kogan and Ruth Kessler Toch of counsel), in his statutory capacity under section 71 of the Executive Law.

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

SCILEPPI, J.

These three companion cases under section 331 of the Election Law, arise out of and challenge the recent amendments to section 151 of the Election Law.

In Palla v. Suffolk County Bd. of Elections, the petitioners, 64 students at the State University at Stony Brook, were denied registration by the Suffolk County Board of Elections on the ground that residence in a university dormitory...

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