Legal Opinion
Eccles v. Gargiulo
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided September 26, 1980No. 80 C 2423PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEAHER, District Judge.
Plaintiffs in this action are candidates for public and Democratic Party offices, and persons representing the class of those who signed petitions on behalf of these candidates, whose names have been stricken by defendants from the ballots of the primary election scheduled to be held September 9, 1980, in the 56th Assembly District, Kings County. Defendants are the Commissioners of Election of the City of New York (hereinafter “Board of Elections”). Claiming a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 et seq., as amended (the Act), and a violation of…
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