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UNITED STATES v. COUNTY BD. OF ELECTIONS OF MONROE CO., N. Y.

Civ. No. 11590.

248 F.Supp. 316 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS OF MONROE COUNTY, NEW YORK, Robert W. Northrop and Kenneth T. Power, Commissioners of Election, Monroe County, New York, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. New York.

December 8, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Doar, Asst. Atty. Gen. of United States, John T. Curtin, U. S. Atty. for Western District of New York, St. John Barrett, Louis Kauder, and Louis Lucas, Attorneys, Department of Justice, for plaintiff.

William J. Stevens, Rochester, N. Y., for defendants.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of New York, intervenor; Ruth Kessler Toch, Asst. Sol. Gen. of New York, Jean M. Coon, Asst. Atty. Gen. of New York, for the State as amicus curiae.

Before KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge, and BURKE and HENDERSON, District Judges.

KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge.

Born out of civil rights problems currently plaguing the south and the violence flowing from them, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-110; 79 Stat. 437, 444) represented a re-commitment by this country to the fundamental principles upon which it was founded. But, despite the principle motivation for its passage, this Act, as our discussion shall indicate, was not designed to remedy deprivations of the franchise in only one section...

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