Calvin WILLIAMS, Gilberto Gerena Valentin, Salvador Cartagena, Midge Brown, and Felix Berrios, on their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs,
v.
Salvatore SCLAFANI, Herbert J. Feuer, Alice Sachs, Charles A. Avarello, Elrich A. Eastman, Elizabeth A. Cassidy, Matteo Lumina, Joseph J. Previte, Anthony Sadowski, and James Bass, Commissioners of the Board of Elections in the City of New York, as Members of, and constituting, the said Board of Elections, Defendants,
State of New York, Ramon S. Velez, Stephen Kaufman, and Hon. Mary Pinkett, Intervenor-Defendants.
United States District Court, S. D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued October 12, 1977.
Decided November 18, 1977.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert Schmukler, Brooklyn, N. Y., for plaintiffs; John C. Klotz, Michael R. Lanzarone, New York City, of counsel.
W. Bernard Richland, Corporation Counsel, New York City, for Board of Elections in the City of New York; Leonard Koerner, Patrick F. X. Mulhearn, New York City, of counsel.
H. Spencer Kupperman, Brooklyn, N. Y., for intervenor Hon. Mary Pinkett.
Stanley Schlein, New York City, for intervenor Stephen Kaufman.
Bleifer & Yalkut, P. C., New York City, for intervenor Ramon S. Velez; Paul E. Bleifer, Theodore E. Teah, New York City, of counsel.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, for intervenor State of New York; George D. Zuckerman, New York City, of counsel.
Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty., New York City, for amicus curiae; Richard N. Papper, New York City, of counsel.
Before MULLIGAN, Circuit Judge, and GRIESA and WARD, District Judges.
United States District Court, S. D. New York.
ROBERT J. WARD, District Judge.
Plaintiffs Gilberto Gerena Valentin ("Valentin") and Felix Berrios ("Berrios")1 move before this three-judge court under § 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973c, for summary judgment against the defendant Commissioners of the Board of Elections in the City of New York, individually and collectively, ("City Board of Elections") in connection...
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