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WILLIAMS v. SCLAFANI

No. 77 Civ. 4355.

444 F.Supp. 906 (1978)

Calvin WILLIAMS, Gilberto Gerena Valentin, Salvador Cartagena, Midge Brown, Felix Berrios, and Antonio Martinez, 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.

January 24, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Klotz, New York City, for plaintiffs Gilberto Gerena Valentin, Felix Berrios and Antonio Martinez; Michael R. Lanzarone, New York City, Robert Schmukler, Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel.

W. Bernard Richland, Corp. Counsel, New York City, for Bd. of Elections in the City of New York; Gary R. Tarnoff, Leonard Koerner, Patrick F. X. Mulhearn, New York City, of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, for intervenor-defendant State of New York; Francis R. Angelino, George D. Zuckerman, New York City, of counsel.

Bleifer & Yalkut, P. C., New York City, for intervenor-defendant Ramon S. Velez; Paul E. Bleifer, Theodore E. Teah, New York City, of counsel.

OPINION

ROBERT J. WARD, District Judge.

On November 18, 1977, a three-judge court granted summary judgment for defendants on the Voting Rights Act claim of plaintiffs Gilberto Gerena Valentin ("Valentin") and Felix Berrios ("Berrios") and granted plaintiffs leave to file a second amended complaint adding a § 1983 claim and another plaintiff, Antonio Martinez ("Martinez"). Plaintiffs Valentin, Berrios and Martinez and intervenor-defendant Ramon S. Velez...

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