Seidel v. Cahn

OPINION

JUDD, District Judge.

This action was brought by two plaintiffs, individually and as members of a class comprising “all persons desiring to render support for Senator Eugene McCarthy’s bid for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency in the vicinity of the Village of Hempstead, New York.” The complaint seeks (a) a declaratory judgment that an ordinance of the Village of Hempstead forbidding obstruction of streets and sidewalks is unconstitutional as overbroad when applied to political activity, and (b) an injunction against the enforcement of the ordinance, including restraint of a…