OGNIBENE v. PARKES

No. 08 Civ. 1335(LTS)(TDK).

599 F.Supp.2d 434 (2009)

Tom OGNIBENE, Yvette Velazquez Bennet, Viviana Vazquez-Hernandez, Robert Perez, Fran Reiter, Sheila Andersen-Ricci, Martina Franca Associates, LLC, Reiter/Begun Associates, LLC, Denis Gittens, Oscar Perez, the Kings County Committee of the New York State Conservative Party, the New York State Conservative Party, Martin Dilan, and Marlene Tapper, Plaintiffs, v. Joseph P. PARKES, S.J., in his official capacity as Chairman of the New York City Campaign Finance Board, Dale C. Christensen, Jr., Katheryn C. Patterson, and Mark S. Piazza, in their official capacity as members of New York City's Campaign Finance Board, Mark Davies, in his official capacity as Executive Director of the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board, and Monica Blum, Steven Rosenfeld, Andrew Irving, and Angela M. Freyre, in their official capacity as members of New York City's Board of Conflicts of Interest, and Michael McSweeny, in his official capacity as Acting City Clerk of New York City, Defendants.

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

February 6, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davidoff, Malito & Hutcher, LLP, by: Charles Capetanakis, New York, NY, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, by: James Bopp, Joseph Eugene La Rue, Terre Haute, IN, for Plaintiffs.

NYC Law Department, Office of the Corporation Counsel, by: Jonathan L. Pines, New York, NY, for Defendants.

Proskauer Rose LLP, by: John Hoover Snyder, New York, NY, for Amici Citizens Union, Common Cause/NY, and New York Public Interest Research Group.

Jenner & Block LLP, by: Paul March Smith, Washington, DC, for Amici Brad Lander and Mark Winston Griffith.


OPINION AND ORDER

LAURA TAYLOR SWAIN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs1 bring this action for declaratory and injunctive relief against Defendants alleging that certain provisions of New York City's political campaign finance and lobby laws violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States and the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973. Specifically, Plaintiffs allege that certain recently...

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