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N.Y. URBAN LEAGUE v. METROPOLITAN TRANSP. AUTH.

No. 95 Civ. 9001 (RPP).

905 F.Supp. 1266 (1995)

NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE, INC., Straphangers Campaign, Andrea Mapp, Deborah Carrington, and Juan B. Gonzalez, Plaintiffs, v. METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, E. Virgil Conway, as Chairman and President of the MTA, the State of New York, George E. Pataki, as Governor of the State of New York, Joseph L. Bruno, as Temporary President of the New York State Senate and Sheldon Silver, as Speaker of the New York State Assembly, Defendants.

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

November 8, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart L.L.P., New York City by Eric T. Schneiderman, Peter Vaughan, and Gerald A. Novak, for Plaintiff New York Urban League, Inc.

Zwerling, Schacter, Zwerling & Koppell, L.L.P., New York City by G. Oliver Koppell and Dan Drachler, for Plaintiffs Straphangers Campaign, Mapp, Carrington, and Gonzalez.

Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General State of New York, New York City by Jeffrey I. Slonim and Gary E. Lesch, for Defendant State of New York.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City by Steven Alan Reiss, for Defendant Sheldon Silver.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York City by Thomas Schwarz, Jeffrey Glekel, and Jeremy A. Berman, for Defendants Metropolitan Transit Authority and E. Virgil Conway.

OPINION AND ORDER

ROBERT P. PATTERSON, Jr., District Judge.

Plaintiffs move pursuant to Rule 65 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for a preliminary injunction to restrain Defendant, New York Metropolitan Transit Authority ("MTA") from implementing a fare increase announced October 19, 1995 and scheduled to take effect November 12, 1995.

Plaintiffs bring this action pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Law of 1964 to obtain injunctive...

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