CITY OF NEW YORK v. U.S. DEPT. OF COMMERCE

No. 813, Docket 93-6183.

34 F.3d 1114 (1994)

CITY OF NEW YORK; State of New York; City of Los Angeles; City of Chicago; City of Houston; Dade County, Florida; United States Conference of Mayors; National League of Cities; League of United Latin American Citizens; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Marcella Maxwell; Donald H. Elliott; John Mack; Olga Morales; Timothy W. Wright, III; Raymond G. Romero; Antonio Gonzales; Athalie Range; Jerry Alan Wood; Carolyn Sue Lopez; City of Atlanta, Georgia; Maynard Jackson, Individually, and as the Mayor of the City of Atlanta; Florida House of Representatives; Florida State Conference; Miguel A. De Grandy; Willye Dennis; Mario Diaz-Balart; Dr. Charles Evans; Rodolfo Garcia, Jr.; Bollowy L. "Bo" Johnson; Alfred J. Lawson, Jr.; Willis Logan, Jr.; Johnnie McMillan; Alzo J. Reddick; Peter Rudy Wallace; T.K. Wetherell, Plaintiffs-Appellants, State of Texas; City of Phoenix, Arizona; State of New Jersey; State of Florida; City of Cleveland, Ohio; City of Denver, Colorado; City of Inglewood, California; City of New Orleans, Louisiana; City of Oakland, California; City of Pasadena, California; City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; City of San Antonio, Texas; City of San Francisco, California; Broward County, Florida; State of Arizona; City of Baltimore, Maryland; City of Boston, Massachusetts; City of Long Beach, California; City of San Jose, California; Los Angeles County, California; San Bernardino County, California; District of Columbia; Navajo Nation; State of New Mexico; City of Tucson, Arizona; Council of Great City Schools, Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellants, People of the State of California ex rel. Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Plaintiff, County of Hudson, New Jersey, Intervenor-Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE; Ronald H. Brown, Esq. As Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce; Michael R. Darby, As Under Secretary for Economic Affairs of the United States Department of Commerce; Bureau of Census; Barbara Everitt Bryant, As Director of Bureau of Census; William J. Clinton, As President of the United States; Donald K. Anderson, As Clerk of the United States House of Representatives; Michael Espy, As Secretary of Agriculture; Donna E. Shalala, As Secretary of Health & Human Services; Henry Cisneros, As Secretary of Housing & Urban Development; Robert B. Reich, As Secretary of Labor; Frederico Pena, As Secretary of Transportation; Richard W. Riley, As Secretary of Education, Defendants-Appellees, State of Wisconsin; State of Oklahoma, Intervenors-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 8, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Rifkind and Peter L. Zimroth, New York City (Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Arnold & Porter, O. Peter Sherwood, Corp. Counsel of City of New York, David B. Goldin, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of State of N.Y., Stanford M. Cohen, Louis M. Solomon, Stein, Zauderer, Ellenhorn, Frischer & Sharp, New York City, Dan Morales, Atty. Gen. of State of Tex., Javier P. Guajardo, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. of the State of Fla., George L. Waas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, FL, Fred De Vesa, Acting Atty. Gen. of State of N.J., Michael S. Bokar, Senior Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N.J., Grant Woods, Atty. Gen. of State of Ariz., Robert B. Carey, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Phoenix, AZ, Tom Udall, Atty. Gen. of State of N.M., Christopher D. Coppin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, NM, James K. Hahn, City Atty. of City of Los Angeles, Jessica F. Heinz, Deputy City Atty., Los Angeles, CA, De Witt W. Clinton, County Counsel of the County of Los Angeles, Ada Treiger, Los Angeles, CA, Timothy J. Schoenwalder, Blank, Rigsby & Meenan, Tallahassee, FL, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants and intervenors-plaintiffs-appellants.

Mark B. Stern, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC (Frank W. Hunger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Michael S. Raab, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, Zachary W. Carter, U.S. Atty. for E.D.N.Y., Brooklyn, NY, on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Peter C. Anderson, Asst. Atty. Gen. of State of Wis., Madison, WI (James E. Doyle, Atty. Gen. of State of Wis., Madison, WI, Gretchen A. Harris, Andrews, Davis, Legg, Bixler, Milsten & Price, Oklahoma City, OK, on brief), for intervenors-defendants-appellees.

Before: TIMBERS, KEARSE, and LEVAL, Circuit Judges.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs City of New York et al. appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York following a bench trial before Joseph M. McLaughlin, Judge,* dismissing their action to compel defendants United States Department of Commerce ("DOC") et al. (collectively the "federal defendants") to make statistically-based adjustments to the 1990 United...

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