Andrews v. Koch

MEMORANDÚM OF DECISION AND ORDER

NEAHER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in this action seek partial summary judgment on their first cause of action, 1 which claims that New York City’s electoral plan for electing ten of the 45 members 2 of the City Council on an at-large basis violates their constitutional rights under the “one person, one vote” principle derived from the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause. Since there appears to be no genuine dispute among the parties as to the relevant and material facts pertinent to that claim, summary judgment is an appropriate procedure for…