Legal Opinion
Franklin v. Krause
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 3, 1973PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Gabrielli, J..Special Term has declared unconstitutional a weighted voting plan adopted by the Board of Supervisors of *236Nassau County; and we are presented with the question whether the board has overcome the infirmity of a prior plan it had proposed.
In Franklin v. Mandeville (26 N Y 2d 65) this court rejected the weighted voting plan under which the Board of Supervisors (board) had operated for well over 30 years primarily for the reason that Supervisors representing some 57% of the county’s population located in the Town of Hempstead could east but 49.6% of the board’s vote. It was further…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Avery v. Midland CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Whitcomb v. ChavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Mahan v. HowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Kirkpatrick v. PreislerSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by26 opinions
- League of Women Voters v. Nassau County Board of SupervisorsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1984
- Morris v. Board of EstimateDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1986
- Britt v. County of NiagaraAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1981
- Morris v. Board of EstimateDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1984
- Greenwald v. BOARD OF SUP'RS OF COUNTY OF SULLIVANDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1983
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