HIRSCHFELD v. SPANAKOS

No. 2079, Docket 96-7094.

104 F.3d 16 (1997)

Abraham HIRSCHFELD and Hirschfeld for Congress Citizens Committee, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. George SPANAKOS, Seymour Sheldon, Weyman Carey, Vincent J. Cuttita, Douglas A. Kellman, Ferdinano C. Marchi, Paul Mejias, Gertrude Strohm, Vincent J. Vellella, Kathleen Wagner, individually and in their capacity as members of the Board of Elections of the City of New York and City of New York, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 3, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Victor, New York City (Charles Haydon, Flora Edwards, Dublirer, Haydon, Straci & Victor. New York City, of counsel), for Appellants.

Ellen Ravitch, Office of the Corporation Counsel, City of New York (Paul A. Crotty, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Stephen J. McGrath, Office of the Corporation Counsel, City of New York, New York City, of counsel), for Appellees.

Before: MESKILL, CALABRESI and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by Abraham Hirschfeld and Hirschfeld For Congress Citizens Committee (Hirschfeld) from a final judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Kaplan, J., dismissing their remaining claim against the New York City Board of Elections (Board) for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Appellants claim they were damaged by the Board's attempts to keep Hirschfeld off the ballot for the...

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