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BRASHICH v. PORT AUTH. OF NEW YORK

Civ. No. 77-6159.

484 F.Supp. 697 (1979)

Deyan Ranko BRASHICH, Plaintiff, v. The PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY, Alan Sagner, John Doe # 1 Through 10, Inclusive, names being fictitious but to be supplied at completion of discovery, Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of The Skies, the Council of Churches of the City of New York, Inc. and The International Synagogue and Jewish Center, Inc., Defendants.

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

December 20, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deyan Ranko Brashich, John W. Finley, Jr., Jay B. Hashmall, Edith Blumberg, Brashich & Finley, New York City, for plaintiff.

Patrick J. Falvey, New York City by Milton H. Pachter, Sholem Friedman, New York City, for defendants Port Authority and Alan Sagner.

John H. Kearney, Kevin M. Kearney, Hurley, Kearney & Lane, Brooklyn, N. Y., for defendant Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Skies.

Mitchell Salem Fisher, Kenneth D. Kemper, Elizabeth Bates, Mitchell Salem Fisher & Kemper, New York City, for defendant Intern. Synagogue and Jewish Center, Inc.

George M. Duff, Jr., Holtzman, Wise & Shepard, New York City, for defendant Council of Churches of the City of New York.

OPINION AND ORDER

PIERCE, District Judge.

Plaintiff sues for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. He sues pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 28 U.S.C. § 1331, and 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3) and (4). Plaintiff asserts that governmental leasing of land to religious groups for the erection of religious chapels, and the presence of three religious chapels at John F...

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