LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS v. NASSAU COUNTY BD.

No. 326, Docket 83-7602.

737 F.2d 155 (1984)

The LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF NASSAU COUNTY, Carol Carlton, Judith Schmertz, Barbara Josepher, Adele Fox and Ann Borner, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NASSAU COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, Thomas Gulotta, as Presiding Supervisor of Town of Hempstead, James Bennett, as Supervisor of Town of Hempstead, John Kiernan, as Supervisor of Town of North Hempstead, Hannah Komanoff, as Supervisor of City of Long Beach, Joseph Colby, as Supervisor of the Town of Oyster Bay, and Alan Parente, as Mayor-Supervisor of City of Glen Cove, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Robert, Robert & Schneider, Hempstead, N.Y., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Donald J. Werner, Curtis, Hart & Zaklukiewicz, Merrick, N.Y., for defendants-appellees.

Before OAKES and MESKILL, Circuit Judges, and NEAHER, District Judge.


NEAHER, District Judge:

Plaintiffs, the League of Women Voters ("League") and five members, appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Jacob Mishler, Judge. Plaintiffs had sued the Nassau County Board of Supervisors ("Board") and its six member supervisors, charging that Nassau County Local Law 2-1982, which reapportioned the Board's weighted voting system after the 1980 census, violated the equal protection...

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