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MATTER OF RICHARDSON (STARK)

284 A.D. 344 (1954)

In the Matter of Roy M. D. Richardson et al., Petitioners-Respondents. Abe Stark, as President of the City Council of The City of New York, et al., Appellants, et al., Respondents, and Thomas J. Rhatigan, Intervener-Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

June 24, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adrian P. Burke, Corporation Counsel (W. Bernard Richland, Seymour B. Quel, Bernard Friedlander and Blossom G. Saxe of counsel), for appellants.

George Rosling for intervener-appellant.

Charles H. Tuttle, Carmine A. Ventiera, John R. Bartels and Roy M. D. Richardson, in person, for Roy M. D. Richardson and others, petitioners-respondents.

Per Curiam.

The proceeding, which is limited to the third, fourth, fifth and seventeenth assembly districts of Kings County, seeks to void the resolution of the city council, which establishes such assembly districts, on the ground that the apportionment which was approved by the resolution is unconstitutional.

The petition alleges that the districts are not convenient, compact, or contiguous, and that it would...

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