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FRANKLIN v. KRAUSE

32 N.Y.2d 234 (1973)

Lawrence Franklin et al., Respondents, v. Stanley W. Krause, as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Nassau, et al., Defendants, and Francis T. Purcell et al., Constituting the Board of Supervisors of the County of Nassau, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 3, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George C. Pratt for appellants.

John M. Armentano, Stanley Harwood and A. Thomas Levin for respondents.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, BREITEL, JASEN and JONES concur; Judge WACHTLER taking no part.

GABRIELLI, J.

Special Term has declared unconstitutional a weighted voting plan adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Nassau County; and we are presented with the question whether the board has overcome the infirmity of a prior plan it had proposed.

In Franklin v. Mandeville (26 N.Y.2d 65) this court rejected the weighted...

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