Barnes v. Durante

Petitioner Robert E. Barnes (Barnes) is the chairman of the Queens County Republican County Committee (County Committee). Respondent John J. Durante (Durante) is being sued individually and in his capacity as the secretary of the County Committee and as the chairman of the executive committee thereof, in addition in Ms capacity as the Queens County Clerk and Clerk of the Supreme Court in Queens County. The relief sought is threefold: (1) to invalidate respondent’s election to the two aforesaid party offices; (2) for an accounting of the funds of the County Committee; and (3) for various other…