WILLIAMS v. SALERNO

No. 822, Docket 85-7896.

792 F.2d 323 (1986)

John WILLIAMS, Neal Rosenstein, Ursula Abrams, Marianne Morris, Dominick Pesola, Paul Sedita, Noah Kaufman, Margaret O'Hanlon, Jennifer Williams, Carla Rice, Sabrina Marshal, Dinah Fieske, Jill Nagle, Lauren Supraner, Jeff Hettinger, on behalf of themselves and other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. George D. SALERNO, R. Wells Stout, Donald Rettaliata and William H. McKeon, as Commissioners of the New York State Board of Elections, New York State Board of Elections, Antonia D'Apice and Marion Oldi, as Commissioners of the Westchester County Board of Elections, the Westchester County Board of Elections, Defendants, Antonia D'Apice, Defendant-Appellant, Marion Oldi, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Bradley, White Plains, N.Y. (of counsel to Taylor, McCullough, Goldberger and Geoghegan), for defendant-appellant.

Arthur Eisenberg, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Arthur H. Goodman, White Plains, N.Y., for defendant-appellee.

Before MANSFIELD, PIERCE and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.


ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:

A century ago the little known American writer R.L. Sharpe made the following poetic observation:

Each is given a bag of tools, A shapeless mass, A book of rules; And each must make Ere life is flown, A stumbling-block Or a stepping-stone.

In the instant case we are presented with two Commissioners of the Westchester County Board of Elections, Marion Oldi and Antonia...

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