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ABATE v. MUNDT

No. 71.

403 U.S. 182 (1971)

91 S.Ct. 1904

29 L.Ed.2d 399

ABATE ET AL. v. MUNDT ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 7, 1971

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank P. Barone argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner Abate. Doris Friedman Ulman argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioners Molof et al. Paul H. Rivet argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioners O'Sullivan et al.

J. Martin Cornell argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Arthur J. Prindle.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General, Ruth Kessler Toch, Solicitor General, and Robert W. Imrie, Assistant Attorney General, filed a brief for the State of New York as amicus curiae.

MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case, petitioners challenge the constitutionality of a reapportionment plan proposed in response to both federal and state court findings of malapportionment in Rockland County, New York. The Court of Appeals of the State of New York upheld the plan. We affirm.

For more than 100 years, Rockland County was governed by a board of supervisors consisting...

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