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MORRIS v. BOARD OF ESTIMATE

No. 81 CV 3920 (ERN).

551 F.Supp. 652 (1982)

Beverly MORRIS; Joy Clarke Holmes; Joanne Oplustil, Plaintiffs, v. The BOARD OF ESTIMATE, the City of New York, Edward I. Koch, individually and as Mayor of New York, Carol Bellamy, individually and as City Council President, Harrison J. Goldin, individually and as Comptroller for the City of New York, Howard Golden, Andrew Stein, Stanley Simon, Donald Manes, Anthony Gaeta, each individually and as Borough Presidents of the boroughs of the City of New York, Defendants, and Frank V. Ponterio, Intervenor-Defendant.

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

December 1, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Emery, Arthur Eisenberg, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., Corp. Counsel by Judith A. Levitt, Susan R. Rosenberg, Asst. Corporation Counsels, New York City, for defendants.

Frank V. Ponterio, Staten Island, N.Y., intervenor-defendant pro se.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NEAHER, District Judge.

This action raises again the question of the application of the "one person, one vote" principle of the Fourteenth Amendment to an agency of local government.1 Plaintiffs are three registered voters of the Borough of Brooklyn who seek declaratory and injunctive relief to remedy claimed disproportionate representation of their borough on the Board of Estimate of the City of New York...

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