IGNERI v. MOORE

No. 546, Docket 89-7730.

898 F.2d 870 (1990)

Olga IGNERI, Individually and as Chairwoman of the Richmond County Republican Committee, Joseph Igneri, and Howard Lim, Jr., Individually and as Chairman of the New York County Conservative Party, and Joyce Lim, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Elizabeth D. MOORE, Chairwoman of the New York State Ethics Commission, and Joseph J. Buderwitz, Jr., Angelo A. Costanza, Norman Lamm and Robert B. McKay, Members of the New York State Ethics Commission, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 15, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Kunz (DeGraff, Foy, Conway, Holt-Harris & Mealey, Kirk M. Lewis, Albany, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Denise A. Hartman, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Sol. Gen., Peter G. Crary, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N.Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Before LUMBARD, NEWMAN, and WINTER, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

The question on appeal is whether a New York statute designed to deter political corruption by requiring extensive financial disclosure by political party chairmen violates their constitutional right to privacy. The district court held that it does. We disagree.

Elizabeth Moore, chairwoman of the New York State Ethics Commission, and other Commission members, appeal from the judgment of the District Court for the Northern District of...

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