McGoey v. Black

OPINION OF THE COURT

Arthur W. Lonschein, J.

This is a petition to validate a designating petition which seeks to designate the petitioner and certain others as candidates for the party positions of delegates and alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention from the Seventh Congressional District of the State of New York. Petitioner raises, as a threshold issue, a novel question of law, not previously directly addressed by the courts.

Petitioner was one of six persons named in the designating petition as candidates for the position of delegates and alternate delegates. The…