Barzelay v. Board of Supervisors

This is an action brought by the plaintiffs on their own behalf, as taxpayers and qualified voters of Onondaga County, and on behalf of all other persons, citizens, taxpayers and voters in Onondaga County, for a judgment *1014declaring that so much of section 150 of the County Law and so much of the Onondaga County Charter, which provides that each member of the Board of Supervisors of the county shall have one vote, is void and invalid as being violative of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York; that the present practice by which…