Wright v. Rockefeller

MOORE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs bring this action allegedly “t0 redress the deprivation, under color of the law of the state of New York, of rightSj privileges and immunities secured to the plaintiffs under the Constitution and laws of the United States and to declare unconstitutional that portion 0f the State statute in question which deprives the plaintiffs of their rights, privileges and immunities”. More specifically, they claim that the action arises under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments of the Constitution of the United States, the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1988 and…