UNITED JEWISH ORG. OF WILLIAMSBURGH, INC. v. WILSON

No. 74 C 877.

377 F.Supp. 1164 (1974)

UNITED JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS OF WILLIAMSBURGH, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Malcolm WILSON, Governor of The State of New York, et al., Defendants.

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

July 25, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, Washington, D. C. (Nathan Lewin Washington, D. C., and Dennis Rapps, Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of N. Y. (George D. Zuckerman, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for defendants, Wilson, Ghezzi, Anderson and Duryea.

William B. Saxbe, Atty. Gen. of U. S. (Richard Seldin, Washington, D. C., and David G. Trager, U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., of counsel, for defendant, United States.

Jack Greenberg and Eric Schnapper, New York City, for N.A.A.C.P., and others, applicants for intervention.


BRUCHHAUSEN, District Judge.

This suit was instituted to declare the recently drawn redistricted lines of the State Senatorial, State Assembly and U. S. Congressional Districts in Kings County, pursuant to Chapters 588, 589, 590, 591 and 599 of the New York Laws of 1974, unconstitutional.

On April 1, 1974, the Attorney General of the United States through his authorized representative, J. Stanley Pottinger, contacted the office of the Attorney General of the...

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