Legal Opinion
Romeu v. Cohen
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 6, 2001No. Docket Nos. 00-6303, 00-6287PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVAL, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Shira A. Scheindlin, J.), dismissing his complaint for failure to state a claim. Plaintiff, a U.S. citizen residing in Puerto Rico who was formerly a resident of New York, asserts the right to vote for New York’s presidential electors in the election held November 7, 2000. One theory of his complaint is that the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (“UOCA-VA”) and the New York Election Law (“NYEL”) violate the U.S. Constitution by extending the…
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