JOHNSON v. CUOMO

No. 84-CV-1374.

595 F.Supp. 1126 (1984)

Sonia JOHNSON, Citizens Party Candidate For President of the United States of America, Susan Bewley, Patricia Hughes, Andrea Natalie and Desmond Michael Kahn, Plaintiffs, v. Mario CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, the State of New York and George D. Salerno, Chairman, State Board of Elections, Defendants.

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

October 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter, Thayer & Long, Albany, N.Y., for plaintiffs; Lanny E. Walter, Albany, N.Y., of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Albany, N.Y., for defendants; James McSparron, Deputy First Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul D. Silver, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N.Y., of counsel.


MEMORANDUM-DECISION and ORDER

JAMES T. FOLEY, Senior District Judge.

The complaint in this action alleges that four specific sections of the New York Election Law placed unconstitutional burdens upon plaintiffs' voting and associational rights in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and deprivation of the right to equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment. The specific...

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