Dolan v. Platt

—Appeals from judgments of the Supreme Court at Special Term, dated October 24, 1979 in Albany County, which granted petitioners’ applications, in proceedings pursuant to section 16-102 of the Election Law, seeking to declare invalid the independent nominating petitions nominating appellants as candidates of the Responsive Government Party for the office of County Legislator in five different Legislative Districts within the County of Albany in the November 6, 1979 general election. The dispositive issue on each of these appeals is whether a nominating petition for a County Legislator is…