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SIGNORELLI v. EVANS

No. 1513, Docket 80-7511.

637 F.2d 853 (1980)

Ernest L. SIGNORELLI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Herbert B. EVANS, as Chief Administrative Judge of the Courts of the State of New York, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel M. Markowitz, Stony Brook, N. Y., for plaintiff-appellant.

Raymond S. Hack, New York City (Gerald Stern, Seth Halpern and Alan Friedberg, New York City, on brief), for defendant-appellee State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

Stephen G. Crane, Michael Colodner, and Cynthia Hutchinson, New York City, submitted a brief for defendants-appellees Herbert B. Evans, as Chief Administrative Judge of the Courts of the State of New York, and the Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., George D. Zukerman, Asst. Sol. Gen., Paul M. Glickman, Stephen M. Jacoby, Asst. Attys. Gen. and Frederic L. Lieberman, Legal Asst., New York City, submitted a brief for defendants-appellees Hugh L. Carey, as Governor of the State of New York and Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., of the State of New York.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges, and NEAHER, District Judge.

NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

The Constitution of the United States specifies that no person may be a member of the House of Representatives unless that person is at least 25 years old, has been a United States citizen for at least seven years, and, at the time of election, is an inhabitant of the State from which the person was chosen. U.S.Const., Art. I, § 2, cl. 2. The State of New York has adopted restrictions on the political activity of state judges that have...

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