CAVE v. BEAME

No. 77-C-2.

433 F.Supp. 172 (1977)

Vernal G. CAVE, M.D., F.A.C.P., individually and as Chairman of the Black Community Council of Crown Heights, Ruth G. Goring, Lionel L. Daniels, Father Edmund P. O'Brien, Rev. Dr. Benjamin J. Lowery, and Ethlene D. Dubin, Plaintiffs, v. Abraham D. BEAME, as Mayor of the City of New York, and as a Member of the Board of Estimate of the City of New York, et al., Defendants.

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

June 1, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walker & Bailey, New York City, for plaintiffs.

W. Bernard Richland, Corp. Counsel, New York City, for City defendants; Mary Ann DeCarolis, Michael Cecere, New York City, of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., New York City, for State defendants; Arnold Fleisher, New York City, of counsel.

David G. Trager, U.S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Brooklyn, N.Y., for U.S. defendants; David W. McMorrow, Cyril Hyman, New York City, of counsel.


COSTANTINO, District Judge.

On December 23, 1976 the Board of Estimate of the City of New York voted in favor of dividing the section of Brooklyn traditionally known as Crown Heights into two separate community districts (hereinafter CDs). Plaintiffs, who are residents of Crown Heights, seek to have the decision of the New York City Board of Estimate declared null and void. They essentially allege that the state and federal defendants have dispensed public funds in...

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