SELFRIDGE v. CAREY

No. 81-CV-1005.

522 F.Supp. 693 (1981)

Grant Thomas SELFRIDGE, as President of the Eastern Rugby Union of America, Inc. and Stephen Arnsdorff, Individually and as a Member of the Eastern Rugby Union of America, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. The Honorable Hugh L. CAREY, as Governor of the State of New York, the State of New York, Erastus Corning, as Mayor of the City of Albany and the City of Albany, Defendants.

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

September 22, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lombardi, Reinhard, Walsh & Harrison, P. C., Schenectady, N. Y., for plaintiffs; Frederick K. Reich, Albany, N. Y., Harlan R. Harrison and Richard P. Walsh, Jr., Schenectady, N. Y., of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, Albany, N. Y., for defendants Carey and The State of New York; Peter L. Yellin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N. Y., of counsel.

Steven R. Shapiro, Arthur N. Eisenberg, New York City, for The New York Civil Liberties Union as amicus curiae.

Lanny Earl Walter, Anita Thayer, Walter & Thayer, Albany, N. Y., for The Capitol District Coalition Against Apartheid as amicus curiae; George King, Albany, N. Y., of counsel.


MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER

MUNSON, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs seek both preliminary and permanent injunctive relief from this Court to insure the pursuit of their plans to meet the South African Springboks in a rugby match scheduled to take place in Albany, New York on Tuesday, September 22, 1981.

Plaintiffs' claims arise under both the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1976). Proper jurisdiction is conferred upon this...

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