Legal Opinion
Reed v. Town of Babylon
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided January 18, 1996No. 1:88-mj-00566PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SEYBERT, District Judge:
Plaintiffs, African-American citizens of the Town of Babylon in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, challenge the town’s at-large election system for its Town Board, charging that the system violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended (the “Act”), 42 U.S.C. Section 1973, and the First, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs allege that the at-large method of electing the Town Board dilutes the voting power of the Town of Babylon’s African-American citizens. Plaintiffs seek to…
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