GREENBERG v. VETERAN

No. 89 Civ. 0591 (GLG).

710 F.Supp. 962 (1989)

In the Matter of the Application of Myles GREENBERG and Frances M. Mulligan, Petitioners, v. Anthony F. VETERAN, et al., Respondents.

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

April 17, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lovett & Gould, White Plains, N.Y. (Jonathan Lovett, of counsel), for petitioners.

Paul Agresta, Town Atty., Town of Greenburgh, Elmsford, N.Y., for respondents Anthony F. Veteran and Susan Tolchin.

Cuddy & Feder, White Plains, N.Y. (Ruth E. Roth, of counsel), for respondents Keren Developments, Inc. and Robert Martin Company.

Ruth E. Roth, White Plains, N.Y., pro se.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City (Jay L. Himes, Cameron Clark, Melinda S. Levine and William N. Gerson, of counsel), for respondents Anita Jordan, April Jordan, Latoya Jordan, Anna Ramos, Lizette Ramos, Vanessa Ramos, Gabriel Ramos, Thomas Myers, Lisa Myers, Thomas Myers, Jr., Linda Myers, Shawn Myers, and Nat. Coalition for the Homeless, and Yvonne Jones, Odell A. Jones, Melvin Dixon, Geri Bacon, Mary Williams, James Hodges and Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People, Inc., White Plains/Greenburgh Branch.

Grover G. Hankins, NAACP, Inc., Baltimore, Md. (Robert M. Hayes, Virginia G. Shubert, Coalition for the Homeless, Julius L. Chambers, John Charles Boger, Sherrilyn Ifill, Andrew M. Cuomo, New York City, of counsel), for respondents Yvonne Jones, Odell A. Jones, Melvin Dixon, Geri Bacon, Mary Williams, James Hodges and Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People, Inc., White Plains/Greenburgh Branch.


OPINION

GOETTEL, District Judge:

Federalism is a concept whose vitality is perceived by some to be rather fluid. There are those, for example, who believe it worthy only of lip service and that, as a general proposition, if a matter may be brought in a court it may be brought in federal court. To that thinking, the retort is quite simple: "federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction."1 Still others, while...

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