FULLILOVE v. KREPS

No. 894, Docket 78-6011.

584 F.2d 600 (1978)

H. Earl FULLILOVE, Fred Munder, Jeremiah Burns, Joseph Clarke, Gerard A. Neuman, William C. Finneran, Jr., Peter J. Brennan, Thomas Clarkson, Conrad Olsen, Joseph DeVitta, as Trustees of the New York Building and Construction Industry Board of Urban Affairs Fund, Arthur Gaffney as President of the Building Trades Employers Association, General Contractors Association of New York, Inc., General Building Contractors of New York State, Inc., and Shore Air-Conditioning Co., Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Juanita KREPS, Secretary of Commerce of the United States of America, the State of New York and the City of New York, the Board of Higher Education and the Health & Hospitals Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 22, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Benisch, Berman, Paley, Goldstein & Berman, French, Fink, Markle & McCallion, New York City, Doran, Colleran, O'Hara & Dunne, Garden City, N. Y. (Robert J. Fink, New York City, Richard L. O'Hara, Robert A. Kennedy, Robert J. Aurigema, William M. Savino, Stephen J. Smirti, Jr., Garden City, of counsel), on brief, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty., New York City, Drew S. Days, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civil Rights Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Gaines Gwathmey, III, Dennison Young, Jr., Mary C. Daly, Patrick H. Barth, Asst. U. S. Attys., New York City, Vincent F. O'Rourke, Jr., Jessica Dunsay Silver, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for defendant-appellee Kreps.

Dominick J. Tuminaro, Asst. Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., George D. Zuckerman, Asst. Atty. Gen. in charge of Civil Rights Bureau, Arnold D. Fleischer, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee State of New York.

Before OAKES, Circuit Judge, and BLUMENFELD and MEHRTENS, District Judges.


BLUMENFELD, District Judge:

This is an appeal from the decision of the District Court, Werker, J., that upheld the constitutionality of section 103(f)(2) of the Public Works Employment Act of 1977 (PWEA), 42 U.S.C. § 6705(f)(2). The statute mandates that "no grant shall be made under this chapter for any local public works project unless the applicant gives satisfactory assurance to the Secretary that at least 10 per centum of the amount of each grant...

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