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PUERTO RICAN ORGANIZATION FOR POLITICAL ACTION v. KUSPER

No. 72 C 2312.

350 F.Supp. 606 (1972)

PUERTO RICAN ORGANIZATION FOR POLITICAL ACTION, a not-for-profit Illinois corporation, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Stanley T. KUSPER et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

October 30, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace Winter, Ray Rodriguez, Northwest Legal Services, Donald Bertucci, DePaul Law Clinic, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

William R. Ming, Jr., Aldus S. Mitchell, Jr., Sophia H. Hall, Andrew M. Raucci, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

George C. Pontikes, Richard S. Kuhlman, Chicago, Ill., for amici curiae.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

TONE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs bring this action to compel the defendant election commissioners to provide voting assistance in the Spanish language to United States citizens of Puerto Rican birth who are unable to use the English language. Plaintiffs rely upon the Voting Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 1971 et seq.), the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (42 U.S.C. § 1983), and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Jurisdiction is based...

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