PUERTO RICAN LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC. FUND v. GANTT

Nos. CV-92-1521(SJ), CV-92-1776(SJ).

796 F.Supp. 698 (1992)

PUERTO RICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND, INC., and Evelyn Corchardo, Plaintiffs, v. David GANTT, Co-Chairman of the New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment; Dean Skelos, Co-Chairman of the New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment; New York State Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment; Saul Weprin, Speaker of the Assembly of the State of New York; Ralph Marino, Majority Leader of the New York State Senate; Mario Cuomo, Governor of the State of New York; Stanley Lundine, Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York; the Senate of the State of New York; the Assembly of the State of New York; the Board of Elections of the State of New York, Defendants. Michael T. WARING, Plaintiff, v. David GANTT, Individually and as Co-Chairman of the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment; Dean Skelos, Individually and as Co-Chairman of the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment; the New York State Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment; the Senate of the State of New York; the Assembly of the State of New York; the Board of Elections of the State of New York; Ronald Starkweather, Individually and as Commissioner of the Board of Elections of the County of Monroe; M. Betsy Relin, Individually and as Commissioner of the Board of Elections of the County of Monroe, Defendants.

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

July 10, 1992.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

In the last decision of this three-judge court, we approved the reapportionment plan recommended by the Special Master and provided that it would take effect on July 8, 1992, unless the state legislature's plan should become operative through preclearance by the Justice Department. Since that time, the Justice Department, by letter dated July 2, 1992, has granted preclearance by notifying the legislature's representatives that the Attorney...

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