CONNECTICUT JUDICIAL SELECTION COM'N v. LARSON

Civ. No. H-89-610 (JAC).

745 F.Supp. 88 (1989)

The CONNECTICUT JUDICIAL SELECTION COMMISSION and Martha Connolly, Robert M. Hadley, Robert F. Harrel, Jr., Jeanne J. Hogan and William Nahas, as rightful non-attorney-at-law members of the Connecticut Judicial Selection Commission, and individually, Plaintiffs, v. John B. LARSON, President Pro Tempore of the Connecticut Senate, Richard J. Balducci, Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives, Cornelius O'Leary, Senate Majority Leader, Robert F. Frankel, House of Representatives Majority Leader, Reginald J. Smith, Senate Majority Leader, and Robert Jaekle, House of Representatives Minority Leader, in their capacity as persons designated to appoint members of the Connecticut Judicial Selection Commission purportedly pursuant to Connecticut Public Act Section 89-238, Ray Bastarache, E. Clayton Gengras, Jr., John G. Groppo, James Spellman, John Doe 1 purported non-attorney-at-law members of the Connecticut Judicial Selection Commission, all individually and in their official capacity, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

December 6, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob D. Zeldes, David P. Atkins, Carol Joy Gordon, Zeldes, Needle & Cooper, P.C., Bridgeport, Conn., for plaintiffs.

Clarine Nardi Riddle, Atty. Gen., State of Conn., Charles A. Overend, William J. McCullough, Lori Adler, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Conn., Hartford, Conn., for defendants.


RULING ON MOTION TO DISMISS

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, District Judge:

Introduction

Plaintiffs, an agency of the State of Connecticut and its five non-attorney members,1 brought this suit on September 20, 1989, seeking relief from Public Act No. 89-238 (the "Act"), which makes changes in the procedures and composition of the Connecticut Judicial Selection Commission (the "Commission"). Those changes include shortening...

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