U.S. v. NEW YORK

No. 96-CV-5562(FB).

255 F.Supp.2d 73 (2003)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. State of NEW YORK, George E. Pataki, Governor of the State of New York, Brian J. Wing, Acting New York State Commissioner of Social Services, Barbara A. DeBuono, New York State Commissioner of Public Health, James L. Stone, New York State Commissioner of Mental Health, Thomas A. Maul, New York State Commissioner of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Richard P. Mills, New York State Commissioner of Education, John L. Behan, Director of the New York State Division of Veterans Affairs, Walter G. Hoefer, Director of the New York State Office for the Aging, Jean Somers Miller, New York State Commissioner of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, Alexander F. Treadwell, New York State Secretary of State, Robert R. Snashall, Chairman of the New York State Workers' Compensation Board, Marva L. Hammons, Commissioner of Human Resources of the City of New York, and Thomas R. Wilkey, Executive Director of the New York State Board of Elections, in their official capacities, Defendants. Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now ("ACORN"), Plaintiff, v. George E. Pataki, In his official capacity as Governor of the State of New York, Thomas R. Wilkey, In his official capacity as executive director of the New York State Board of Elections, Brian Wing, In his official capacity as Acting Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, Barbara DeBuono, M.D., In Her Individual and Official Capacity as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, Marva Livingston Hammons, In Her Individual and Official Capacity as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services and as Administrator of the New York City Human Resources Administration, Defendants.

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

March 26, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Yeomans, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, by Joseph D. Rich, Rebecca J. Wertz, Richard Dellheim, Attorneys, Voting Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Roslynn R. Mauskopff, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, by Sanford M. Cohen, Chief, Civil Rights Litigation, Maria Tepper, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, NY, for the Government.

Alexandra F. Mora, New Orleans, LA, for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, by Victor Leong, Assistant Attorney General, New York, NY, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM & ORDER

BLOCK, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, the United States and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now ("ACORN"), brought this action challenging the voter registration system implemented by defendant State of New York through the defendant State agencies, each of which has been designated as a voting registration agency ("VRA") under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 ("NVRA"). Settlements have been reached...

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