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YMCA VOTE AT 18 CLUB v. BOARD OF ELECTIONS OF CITY OF N. Y.

No. 70 Civ. 1814.

319 F.Supp. 543 (1970)

YMCA VOTE AT 18 CLUB, an unincorporated association, by R. Peter Straus, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The BOARD OF ELECTIONS OF the CITY OF NEW YORK, the Board of Elections of the County of Westchester, Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General of the State of New York, Frank S. Hogan, District Attorney for the County of New York, and Carl A. Vergari, District Attorney for the County of Westchester, Defendants.

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

June 23, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robinson, Silverman, Pearce, Aronsohn & Sand, New York City, for plaintiffs; Leonard B. Sand, Barry I. Fredericks, New York City, of counsel.

J. Lee Rankin, Corp. Counsel, New York City, for defendant, Board of Elections of the City of New York; Norman Redlich, Leonard Bernikow, New York City, of counsel.

John J. S. Mead, County Atty., County of Westchester, White Plains, N. Y., for defendants Bd. of Elections of the County of Westchester and Carl A. Vergari, Dist. Atty. for County of Westchester; Julius W. Cohn, Senior Asst. County Atty., of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, for Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. and Frank S. Hogan, Dist. Atty. for the County of New York; Joel Lewittes, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.

PALMIERI, District Judge.

The plaintiffs are allegedly aggrieved by New York State's constitutional and statutory provisions setting the minimum age for the exercise of the franchise in New York at 21 years. They ask that a three-judge court be convened with a view to obtaining injunctive relief and a declaration of unconstitutionality with respect to these provisions.

The jurisdiction of this Court is based upon the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §§...

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