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BUTTS v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 84 Civ. 7373-CLB.

614 F.Supp. 1527 (1985)

Reverend Calvin O. BUTTS III and Digna Sanchez, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, New York City Board of Elections, Election Commissioners Matteo Lumetta, Ferdinand C. Marchi, Rosemary A. Millus, Joseph J. Previte, Martin Richards, James S. Bass, Alice Sachs, Anthony Sadowski, Betty Dolen, Executive Director, Robert S. Black, President, and Orlando Velez, Secretary, Defendants.

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

August 13, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randolph M. Scott-McLaughlin, C. Vernon Mason, Juan Saavedra-Castro, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., Corp. Counsel for City of New York by Beth G. Schwartz, Thomas C. Crane, and Elizabeth J. Logan, New York City, for defendants.

BRIEANT, Judge.

Plaintiffs, suing in behalf of a class consisting of all present and/or potentially eligible Black and Hispanic voters residing in New York City, seek injunctive and declaratory relief holding that New York Election Law § 6-162 violates the United States Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973, and the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983. The challenged New York statute is a run-off primary law, applicable only...

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