Merced v. Koch

OPINION AND ORDER

CONNER, District Judge:

On November 30, 1983, defendant New York City Community Development Agency (“CDA”) plans to conduct elections for representatives to thirty-three Area Policy Boards (“APBs”). Plaintiffs, four registered voters of Hispanic national origin, commenced the instant action challenging a change in the manner in which persons will be elected to the APBs beginning with that election.

The CDA is the New York City agency charged with administering federal antipoverty funds received by New York under the Community Services Block Grant Program. The procedures…